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AMONG the objects discovered by the American explorer, Mr. Theodore M. Davies, in the tomb of Queen Thiy's parents in the Biban el Muluk at Thebes was the funeral papyrus of loniya, the father of Amenophis III.'s great Queen. This was first worked over by Prof. Newberry in 1906, who published a summary of its contents in Mr. Davies' “The Tomb of loniya and Touiyou” (Constable and Co.) in 1907. Photographs of the document were then placed in Prof. Naville's hands for fuller publication, and the volume now before us is the Swiss Egyptologist's account of this important eighteenth-dynasty copy of the Book of the Dead. The papyrus itself measures 9 metres 70 cm. long; it is written in linear hieroglyphs with vignettes finely executed in colour, and contains some forty chapters, one of which is new to science. This new chapter is illustrated by a vignette of nine serpents, and is entitled “Coming out of the Day.” It belongs to the group of chapters of the gates and pylons where the deceased has to show his knowledge of the names of the occupants and warders. To the finely reproduced facsimiles of the document M. Naville has added a translation, based mainly on that of the standard edition of the Book of the Dead by the late Mr. Le Page Renauf—the edition which Mr. Naville himself completed and edited.
The Funeral Papyrus of Ioniya.
(Theodore M. Davies' Excavation: Bibên el Molûk.) With Introduction by Edouard Naville. Pp. viii + 20; plates 34. (London: Archibald Constable and Co., Ltd.) Price 21s. net.
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The Funeral Papyrus of Ioniya . Nature 84, 237 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084237b0
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