English Explanatory Dictionary

Amduat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Word forms

Amduat

Etymology

From a 19th-century transcription of Egyptian jmj-dwꜣt (literally “(that which) is in the afterworld”).

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