Detail from the Book of the Dead of Cesmedhed khonsu, Amon's (Amun) musician. Properly called the \Spells of Coming (or Going) Forth By Day\" these wo

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Detail from the Book of the Dead of Cesmedhed khonsu, Amon's (Amun) musician. Properly called the \Spells of Coming (or Going) Forth By Day\" these would consist of a number of funerary chapters for the deceased to read during their journey into the underworld and would be buried in their tomb with book of the dead evolved over a long period of time from the Pyramid texts of the Old Kingdom until 1600 BC. This painted papyrus shows six painted scenes from a series created for the priests of Amon. The papyrus contains mythological scenes and magical formuli to guide the deceased in the afterlife. The deceased is shown on the right with a table of offerings before the god Osiris. National Archaelogical Museum, Florence."

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