Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité Susceptible to numerous interpretations

Susceptible to numerous interpretations

Le poème d'Hésiode n'est pas seulement un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature antique

through the diversity of subjects and iconographic quality

d'une virtuosité technique et d'un réalisme surprenants

vol II : The New Kingdom

Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité Susceptible to numerous interpretationsThis work is devoted to the Book of the "Opening of the Mouth", a ritual of which a version is represented on the walls of a long corridor of the tomb of Padimenipet, the largest burial ever excavated in Egypt, located in the Theban necropolis at the foot of the temple of Deir el Bahari. It is dated to the end of the 25th or the beginning of the 26th dynasty, around 650 BC. This work proposes, after the translation followed by the text of the ritual,