num_pages: 176
description: This is an ancient Egyptian mortuary text preserved in four manuscripts located in Berlin Strasbourg Paris and Oxford. All are written in Demotic script and date to the early part of the 1st century AD. The purpose of this liturgy was threefold: to revivify the deceased oerson for whom it was recited to provide them with offerings in the form of clothing and sustenance to reintegrate them within the cosmos ensuring their freedom of movement and acceptance among the company of gods. The liturgy is edited with an introduction transliteration and translation commentary bibliography glossary and photographs of all four versions. The Strasbourg MS contains additional textual material of uncertain relation to the liturgy proper which is treated as an appendix.Includes text of Book of opening the mouth (transliteration and translation): p. 23-34.
language: English
title: The Liturgy of Opening of the Mouth for Breathing
publisher: Griffith Institute