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THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF GATES (2014) Translated from the German by Erik Hornung in collaboration with Theodor Abt
THE EGYPTIAN BOOK OF GATES (2014) Translated from the German by Erik Hornung in collaboration with Theodor Abt
HORNUNG, Erik (translated by, in collaboration with Theodor Abt)
The Egyptian Book of Gates
Zurich: Living Human Heritage Publications, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. Green cloth with silver titles to front and spine (on black label). Title page, as well as text in black and red. 475 pp. Illustrated throughout in color and black and white.
Corner bump to upper right front and upper left rear. Some lightly creased pages also at upper right (see last 2 photos). Otherwise a clean, very good copy in like dust jacket.
The Egyptian Book of Gates is the second large Pharaonic Book of the Afterlife after The Egyptian Amduat. This revised English translation is based on the German edition, edited by Erik Hornung. The hieroglyphs and transcriptions are given on the basis of a collation of the extant texts found in different tombs. The main illustrations of the text come from the sarcophagus of Seti I. The 100 scenes of the Book of Gates are furthermore represented with one or more colored illustrations, originating from different sources.