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 "title": "The Egyptian Book of the Dead — Lepsius's Turin Papyrus (1842), the Papyrus of Ani in Facsimile (1894; 1913), Budge's Hieroglyphic Text of the Theban Recension (1898) and Naville's Einleitung (1886)",
 "edition": "Richard Lepsius, Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin (Leipzig: Wigand, 1842) — the Turin papyrus (Museo Egizio, cat. 1791), the Ptolemaic Book of the Dead in 165 chapters, Lepsius's numbering; Google copy; The Book of the Dead: facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, edited by P. Le Page Renouf (London: British Museum, 1894; second edition) — 37 double facsimiles in colours; Getty Research Institute copy; E. A. Wallis Budge, The Papyrus of Ani: a reproduction in facsimile, edited with hieroglyphic transcript, translation and introduction, vol. 1 (London: Medici Society; New York: Putnam, 1913) — NYU Institute of Fine Arts copy; E. A. Wallis Budge, The Book of the Dead: the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day; the Egyptian text according to the Theban recension in hieroglyphic, edited from numerous papyri (London: Kegan Paul, 1898), vol. 1, The Egyptian Text; Édouard Naville, Das aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII. bis XX. Dynastie, aus verschiedenen Urkunden zusammengestellt (Berlin: Asher, 1886), Einleitung — the introduction to the critical edition; University of Toronto copy",
 "language": "egy (Middle Egyptian), hieroglyphic and hieratic",
 "license": {
  "payload": "Public domain: the texts are of the New Kingdom and later. Lepsius (Leipzig, 1842), Renouf and Budge's facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani (British Museum, 1894), Budge's The Papyrus of Ani (1913), Budge's Book of the Dead: the Egyptian text according to the Theban recension (1898) and Naville's Das aegyptische Todtenbuch, Einleitung (Berlin, 1886) are public domain in the United States (published before 1931); Internet Archive scans.",
  "record": "CC-BY-4.0 applies to this seat record only."
 },
 "fetched": "2026-10-23",
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    "identifier": "papyrusofanirepr01budg",
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  "fetched": "2026-10-23",
  "transport": "in-session fetch (Transport D); No-Double-Draw"
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    "work": "Richard Lepsius, Das Todtenbuch der Ägypter nach dem hieroglyphischen Papyrus in Turin (Leipzig: Wigand, 1842) — the Turin papyrus (Museo Egizio, cat. 1791), the Ptolemaic Book of the Dead in 165 chapters, Lepsius's numbering; Google copy",
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    "work": "Édouard Naville, Das aegyptische Todtenbuch der XVIII. bis XX. Dynastie, aus verschiedenen Urkunden zusammengestellt (Berlin: Asher, 1886), Einleitung — the introduction to the critical edition; University of Toronto copy",
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 "normalization": "Files as fetched. Internet Archive OCR text layers as fetched, uncorrected (text/<slug>.ocr.txt); the scan under original/ is the witness. Library of Congress and FAMSI PDFs are image files without a text layer: the page is the only reading. The scanners' text layers read the German, English and French; over hieroglyphs they are noise.",
 "scope": "The Book of the Dead in its two founding editions and its best-known papyrus: Lepsius's Turin papyrus, which gave the work its chapter numbers; the Papyrus of Ani (BM EA 10470) in the British Museum's facsimile and in Budge's 1913 reproduction with hieroglyphic transcript; and Budge's typeset hieroglyphic text of the Theban recension. Naville's critical edition is seated in its introduction volume only: the two volumes of text and variants (Bd. I, Text und Vignetten; Bd. II, Varianten) were not found in an open scan reachable in this pass: QUEUED. Allen's translation (1974) and the Totenbuch-Projekt's editions are in copyright and are not seated.",
 "verified_loci": [
  "Lepsius 1842, preface — 'Das Todtenbuch giebt die reicbsten Aufschlüsse' (the OCR reads 'reichsten' as 'reicbsten')",
  "Renouf 1894, list of plates — 'introduction of Ani into the presence of'",
  "Budge 1913, title — 'THE PAPYRUS OF ANI, SCRIBE'",
  "Budge 1898, title — 'THE EGYPTIAN TEXT ACCORDING TO THE THEBAN'",
  "Naville 1886, title — 'EINLEITUNG'"
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 "why_seated": "The book that went into the tomb with the dead: the spells for coming forth by day, the Weighing of the Heart before Osiris, and the Negative Confession, a first-person count of a stated domain ending in denials (\"I have not …\"), forty-two times. The archive's operator of the exhaustive negation has its oldest recited specimen here.",
 "spine": "Book of the Dead",
 "ruling": "Lee Sharks, 2026-10-23: \"detour for an ea-corpora searing. lets see. whats available of mayan texts? and then i dont think we have much or any deteurocanonical second temple lit - all those apocalypses. and what about the ethiopian canon? and euclid. all in original language or as close to it as possible. what else?\" — \"and the Egyptian book of the dead\" — \"and what about the fragments of the book of baalim? i might be miswriting this. recent discovery. if theyre available anywhere.\" — \"yes yes yes to all - what a meal.\""
}