Book of Breathing

Description

Abbreviated Second Document of Breathing, amuletic papyrus inscribed with eleven lines of hieratic script, discovered with the body of mummified male child Petamūn (A.1956.357 C) : Ancient Egyptian, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. 175 - 200 AD

Museum reference

A.1956.357 D

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Papyrus

Production information

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 175 - 200

Style / Culture

Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Papyrus

Collection place(s)

Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Previous owner: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863
Previous owner: Pedamun
Ta-Renenut

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Heaven and Hell and other worlds of the dead (01 Jul 2000 - 01 Feb 2001)
  Royal Museum of Scotland

References

Rhind. A. H. 1862. Thebes: Its Tombs and Their Tenants..., p. 108‒9

DAWSON, W R 1927. “On Two Egyptian Mummies Preserved in the Museums of Edinburgh”, Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1926-1927: pp. 290-96

Coenen, M. 2004. 'The "Documents of Breathing" in the Royal Museum of Edinburgh', Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 32, p. 112‒5; pl. 8

Scalf, F 2017, 'The Death of the Book of the Dead' in Scalf, F (ed.) Book of the Dead: Becoming God in Ancient Egypt (Chicago), p. 141, fig. 12.6