Papyrus of Ani

Thoth's declaration to the Great Ennead

The Vignette of the Weighing of the Heart of the Scribe Ani
Material	Papyrus
Size	Length: 67 cm (26 in) (frame) Width: 42 cm (17 in) (frame)
Writing	Hieroglyphic
Created	1250 BC (circa)
Period/culture	19th Dynasty
Place	Tomb of Ani
Present location	British Museum, London
Identification	10470,3
Registration	1888,0515.1.3

The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript written in cursive hieroglyphs and illustrated with color miniatures created in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt (c. 1250 B.C.).

Egyptians often compiled an individualized book for each person at their death, called the "Book of Going Forth by Day". This book is more commonly known as the Book of the Dead. It usually contained declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. The "Book of the Dead" for scribe Ani from Thebes is the manuscript called the Papyrus of Ani.

It was purchased in 1888 by Sir E. A. Wallis Budge for the collection of the British Museum where it remains today. Before shipping the manuscript to England, Budge cut the seventy-eight foot scroll into thirty-seven sheets of nearly equal size, damaging the scroll's integrity at a time when technology had not yet allowed the pieces to be put back together.

Contents

Chapter 23 of the Book of the Dead (detail)

Note: divisions vary based on compilations. 'Sections' are groups of related sentences; not a true English grammatical construct. Titles are not original to the text.

See also

• Book of the Dead
• Maat: 42 Negative Confessions (Papyrus of Ani)

References

• The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day, The First Authentic Presentation of the Complete "Papyrus of Ani", Introduction and commentary by Dr. Ogden Goelet, Translation by Dr. Raymond O. Faulkner, Preface by Carol Andrews, Featuring Integrated Text and Full Color Images, (Chronicle Books, San Francisco) c1994, Rev. ed. c1998. Contains: Map Key to the Papyrus, Commentary by Dr. Ogden Goelet, Selected Bibliography, and "Glossary of Terms and Concepts".
• Eternal Egypt: Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum, Edna Russmann.
• The Egyptian Book of the Dead: (The Papyrus of Ani), (Dover Ed., New York), c1895, Dover ed., 1967. Egyptian Text Transliteration and Translation, Introduction, etc. by Sir E.A.Wallis Budge.

External links

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• The Egyptian Book of the Dead.