Coffin Texts — Breasted 1912 selected English quotations and context — sourcepage 295
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Work: Coffin Texts
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Coffin Texts — Breasted 1912 selected English quotations and context
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TRIUMPH OF OSIRIS 273 are found. The number of such mortuary texts is still constantly increasing as additional coffins from this age are found. Every local coffin-maker was furnished by the priests of his town with copies of these utterances. Before the coffins were put together, the scribes in the maker's employ filled the inner surfaces with pen-and-ink copies of such texts as he had available. It was all done with great carelessness and inaccuracy, the effort being to fill up the planks as fast as possible. They …
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- Selected historical English CoffinTextquotations within Breasted’s discussion, printed273–284, includingquotedhouseholddecrees, bread/food prayers and ancientcharmtitles withLacaureferences. These12sourcepages retain their surrounding scholarlycontext and clearlyquotedtext; not the completeCoffinTextcorpus, not a continuous reconstructedancientwork, and not a laterFaulknertranslation. SourceOCR/uncertainty and ancientreferencenumbering preserved without repair.
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Recorded provenance: Selected historical English CoffinTextquotations within Breasted’s discussion, printed273–284, includingquotedhouseholddecrees, bread/food prayers and ancientcharmtitles withLacaureferences. These12sourcepages retain their surrounding scholarlycontext and clearlyquotedtext; not the completeCoffinTextcorpus, not a continuous reconstructedancientwork, and not a laterFaulknertranslation. SourceOCR/uncertainty and ancientreferencenumbering preserved without repair.
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