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Coffin Texts

Coffin Texts proper noun: a corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.

Proper noun

Coffin Texts

  1. A corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.

Coffin Texts meaning in Arabic

Coffin Texts in Arabic

ancient Egyptian funerary texts
نُصُوص التَّوَابِيت nuṣūṣ at-tawābīt

Origin of Coffin Texts

Calque of German Sargtexte.

Questions about Coffin Texts

What does Coffin Texts mean?
Coffin Texts means a corpus of ancient Egyptian funerary texts of the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, written on coffins and developed from the earlier Pyramid Texts.
What is Coffin Texts in Arabic?
Coffin Texts in Arabic is نُصُوص التَّوَابِيت (nuṣūṣ at-tawābīt). See Coffin Texts meaning in Arabic.
What part of speech is Coffin Texts?
Coffin Texts is a proper noun.

Words near Coffin Texts in the dictionary

  1. coffin rides
  2. coffin ship
  3. coffin ships
  4. coffin tack
  5. coffin tacks
  6. Coffin Texts
  7. coffin window
  8. coffin windows
  9. Coffin-Lowry syndrome
  10. Coffin-Siris syndrome
  11. coffined

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