The pyramid texts
By: in translation and commentary by Samuel A. B. Mercer. [With excursuses by Hermann Kees, and others.
Contributors: Mercer, Samuel A. B. b. 1880 ed. and tr.
Edition: 1st ed.]
Publisher: Longmans, Green
Published: 1952
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; egy
Subjects: Inscriptions, Egyptian -- Inscriptions.
Work titles: Pyramid texts.
Description: The Egyptian pyramid texts, which are the basis of this work, were collected and inscribed on the walls of five royal pyramids at Sakkareh between the years 2350 and 2175 B.C. The present work is the first English translation with commentary.