Book of the Dead
词源链
- 英语English
Book of the Dead
词源说明
A calque of German Todtenbuch (der Ägypter), used by Karl Richard Lepsius in his 1842 publication describing the text.
释义
专有名词proper noun
- 1An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts