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Amduat

Amduat proper noun: an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.

Proper noun

Amduat

  1. An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.

Origin of Amduat

From a 19th-century transcription of Egyptian jmj-dwꜣt (literally “(that which) is in the afterworld”), a title applied to an abridgement of this text in some papyri of the Third Intermediate Period. Older and more complete exemplars of the text instead title it zẖꜣ-n-ꜥt-jmnt (“the Treatise of the Hidden Chamber”).

Questions about Amduat

What does Amduat mean?
Amduat means an ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.
What part of speech is Amduat?
Amduat is a proper noun.

Words near Amduat in the dictionary

  1. amdram
  2. amdrams
  3. AMDRs
  4. amdt
  5. amdts
  6. Amduat
  7. AME
  8. Ame-no-Uzume
  9. ameb-
  10. ameba
  11. amebae

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