Coffin Texts

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Coffin Texts

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Calque of German Sargtexte.

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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.

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name ancient Egyptian funerary texts

Deutsch	Sargtexte
العربية	نُصُوص التَّوَابِيت nuṣūṣ at-tawābīt

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@misc{coffin_texts_2026,
  title = {Coffin Texts},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/coffin%20texts},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}