TAA i.3.1.12

Page number
12
Caption
Note for scientific publication on boats
Creator
Date of creation
c. 1923-1939
Material
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
22.8 x 17.8 cm (h x w)
Notes

Handwritten notes on sepulchral deities, page 2. The whole text or part of the text is fully struck through on this page but is not indicated in the transcription. On this page, strikethrough formatting is reserved for the author’s edits and deletions within the main body of the text, which would otherwise be difficult to distinguish.

Transcription

p. 47                                                                (2)

 

"Faring northward in peace to a/<A>bydos in order to ferry across the 

god to his festival and in his sailing of the beginning of the year ..."

 

The x[?]/<in>scription shows that a visit to a/<A>bydos was intended, where the 

deceased should take part in the festivals of Osiris.

 

This journey is a sort of pilgrimage to the holiest spot in Egypt

 

p. 51 The funeral procession to the bed-chamber (i.e. <a figurative word/<name> for Burial Chamber)

 

The material in these caskets and boxssic, are features of the like[?]

through of

The material in those caskets and boxssic ,/<were> like the rest of the objects

in this chamber, are/<were> like/<a> regular features of the royal

funeral procession. with the exception with perhaps the exception

of the boats which belong to a the nautical series which <were some> belong

<connected with> to the funeral pilgrimage like that to the [?] spot to the [?] place

Abydos connected Osiris, ferrying across … waters[?], to the

diurnal & nocturnal [?] of the sun.