English Explanatory Dictionary

Coffin Texts

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  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.

Word forms

Coffin Texts

Etymology

Calque of German Sargtexte.

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