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Document Details : Title: Books of Breathings Subtitle: More than a terminological Question? Author(s): COENEN, M. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 26 Date: 1995 Pages: 29-38 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.26.0.583521 Abstract : Although the Book of the Dead was in use until well into the Ptolemaic Period, the Books of Breathings tended to replace it at Thebes and surroundings. In the Rituels funéraires de l'ancienne Egypte J.-Cl. Goyon divides the Books of Breathings into three groups. Apart from the First Book and the Second Book of Breathings, the abbreviated versions of the Second Book form a separate category. Studying the papyri which are usually designated as First Books of Breathings, one gains the impression that this classification takes almost no account of the titles written by the Egyptians themselves on some of these texts. It must be emphasized that the majority of these papyri bear no title or are generally titled “Book of Breathings”, the sole exception being the papyri containing what Goyon calls the First Book of Breathings. The purpose of this contribution is to present a new classification for these mortuary papyri. First the different divisions proposed in the course of time will be reviewed, and subsequently I shall try to establish a new classification by means of the Egyptian titles written on some Books of Breathings. |
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