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TM 48570 / LDAB 48570 Record to be adopted by: you?

Stable URI (with TM ID): www.trismegistos.org/text/48570

also known as Breathing Permit of Hor; Hor Book of Breathing

TM Gallery info The Breathing Permit of Hor (TM 48570) is a late Ptolemaic papyrus with a so-called Book of Breathing, a funerary composition from the later periods of Egyptian history. It is famous because it is part of the so-called Joseph Smith Papyri, once owned by the founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The papyrus was amongst those believed by Smith to contain an autograph account by Abraham of his life. Smith's 1835-1842 translation was canonized in 1880 as the Book of Abraham. It now resides in Salt Lake City.

Metadata

Date: first half 2nd century BC: BC 199 - 150

Provenance: Memnoneia - Djeme (Thebes west) - Egypt (4th Upper Egyptian nomeThe Egyptian nome ca. 3rd cent. BC - AegyptusThe Roman provincia ca. 2nd cent. AD) [found & written]

Language/script: Hieratic / Hieroglyphic

hieratic with hieroglyphic captions

Material: papyrus

Incompletely preserved

Content (beta!): Document of breathing made by Isis

Authors / works: Anonymus of the Liturgy of opening of the mouth for breathing, Document of opening the mouth for breathing: of Isis (direct attestation)

Culture & genre: religion — funerary (religion: Egyptian)

Recto/Verso: Ro

Note: illustrated with vignettes

More info: WikipediaWikipedia => 949 links in TM

Publications

Ritner, The Joseph Smith papyri. A complete edition p. 101-186 (Ritner, Robert K. - 2011)
&Journal of Near Eastern Studies (JNES) 62 (2003), p. 161-180 (Ritner, Robert K. - 2003) Please subscribe to follow this link
&Larson, By his own hand [Hor Book of Breathing] (Larson, Charles M. - 1982) [default]

∙Rhodes, The Hor Book of Breathings (Studies in the Book of Abraham 2) (Rhodes, Michael D. - 2002)

∙Dialogue. A journal of Mormon thought 3 (1968), p. 111-134 (1968)

∙Nibley, The message of the Joseph Smith papyri (Nibley, Hugh - 1975; to be used for photos only)

Photo: Larson, By his own hnd; JNES 62 (2003), p. 178-180

Collections

→ Salt Lake City, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints P. Joseph Smith I + P. Joseph Smith X + P. Joseph Smith XI

∙New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 47.102.9 (previous)

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