Coffin Texts

English

Etymology

Calque of German Sargtexte.

Proper noun

Coffin Texts

A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.

Translations

ancient Egyptian funerary texts

German: Sargtexte m pl

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