British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan (BMSAES) Issue 15

Abstract

• Editorial This issue contains 13 papers from the colloquium, The Book of the Dead - Recent research and new perspectives, held at the British Museum on 21–22 July 2009. The meeting brought together leading scholars working on aspects of the Book of the Dead. Several of their contributions have been influential in the development of the exhibition Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (4 November 2010 – 6 March 2011). The papers presented here represent the majority of those that will eventually appear in a hard copy publication, though with more extensive use of colour than will be possible in that volume. Neal Spencer, Elisabeth O'Connell and Liam McNamara edited the papers, with the assistance of John Taylor. Neal Spencer Contents: Three funerary papyri from Thebes: new evidence on scribal and funerary practice in the Late Period (Burkhard Backes) The Book of the Dead as canon (John Gee) Creating borders: new insights into making the Papyrus of Ani (Bridget Leach and Richard B. Parkinson) The two funerary papyri of Queen Nedjmet(P. BM EA 10490 and P. BM EA 10541 + Louvre E. 6258) (Giuseppina Lenzo) The guardian-demons of the Book of the Dead (Rita Lucarelli) In the footsteps of Edouard Naville (1844–1926) (Barbara Lüscher) An intriguing Theban Book of the Dead tradition in the Late Period (Malcom Mosher, Jr) Memphis-Thebes: local traditions in the Late Period (Marcus Müller-Roth) The Book of the Dead project: past, present and future (Marcus Müller-Roth) Evidence of a master copy transferred from Thebes to the Memphis area in Dynasty 26 (Irmtraut Munro) The Book of the Dead of Ankhesenaset (P. BNF Egyptien 62-88). Traces of workshop production or scribal experiments? (Chloe Ragazzoli) Book of the Dead documents from the New Kingdom necropolis at Saqqara (Maarten J. Raven) When a Book of the Dead text does not match archaeology: The case of the protective magical bricks (BD 151) (Isabelle Régen)