PUBLISHERS' NOTE MESSRS. KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & Co., LTD., beg to announce that they have still in stock a limited number of the larger edition of the hieroglyphic text and translation of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, with the hieroglyphic vocabulary by DR. WALLIS BUDGE, which appeared in three volumes under the title "CHAPTER OF COMING FORTH BY DAY," late in 1897. Price for the Entire Work, £2 10s. VOLUME I. contains all the known Chapters of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead, printed in hieroglyphic type (pp. 1-517), and a description of the papyri in the British Museum from which they have been edited, and a list of Chapters, etc. (pp. i.—xl.). This edition is the most complete which has hitherto been published. VOLUME II. contains a full vocabulary (pp. 1–386) to all the hieroglyphic texts of the Chapters of the Theban Recension of the Book of the Dead and to the supplementary Chapters from the Saïte Recension which are given therewith in Volume I. The volume contains about 35,000 references. Preface and list of Chapters (i.-xxxvi.). 1. INTRODUCTION (pp. xxxvii.-cciv.) :— Chap. I.—The History of the Book of the Dead. This Chapter is accompanied by eighteen plates which illustrate the palæography of the various Recensions of the Book of the Dead from the Vth Dynasty to the Roman Period. VOL. IV. A Chap. II. Osiris and the Resurrection. III. The Judgment of the Dead. IV. V. VI. The Elysian Fields or Heaven. With extracts from the Pyramid Texts. The Magic of the Book of the Dead. The Object and Contents of the Book of the Dead. VIII.-The Book of Breathings (English translation). 2. ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (pp. 1-354). The volume also contains three scenes from the famous Papyrus of Ani representing the Judgment Scene, the Funeral Procession, and the Elysian Fields, which have been reproduced in full colours by Mr. W. Griggs, the eminent photo-lithographer. Books on Egypt and Chaldaea A HISTORY OF EGYPT FROM THE END OF THE NEOLITHIC PERIOD TO THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA VII. B.C. 30 VOL. IV. EGYPT AND HER ASIATIC EMPIRE |