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LITURGY OF FUNERAL OFFERINGS

siderable length, and explained the Vignettes and the texts of the version in the tomb of Seti I. Since that time the texts of several tombs at Thebes have been published, and the material available for the study of the texts and Vignettes has been greatly increased.

The principal versions of the Liturgy of Funerary Offerings and the Book of Opening the Mouth may now be summarized. For the Liturgy there are two copies of the period of the Ancient Empire, one in the Pyramid of Unȧs, and one in the Pyramid of Pepi II. Nefer-ka-Rā. Several Lists of offerings, more or less complete, from the maṣṭaba tombs at Ṣaḳḳârah are also available. Of the XIXth Dynasty there are the Lists in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes and in his temple at Abydos. Of the XXth Dynasty there is the List on the covers of the coffin of Butehai-Ȧmen; of the XXVIth Dynasty the List of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt; and of the Roman Period the List in the Papyrus of Sais, the priestess, in Paris. For the Book of Opening the Mouth there are: a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Rekhmȧrā at Thebes, of the XVIIIth Dynasty; a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Seti I. at Thebes, of the XIXth Dynasty; a copy, without Vignettes, written for Butehai-Ȧmen on the covers of his coffin, of the XXth Dynasty; a copy, with Vignettes, in the tomb of Peṭā-Ȧmen-ȧpt, of the XXVIth Dynasty; a copy, without Vignettes, written for the priestess Sais in the Roman period.

The reader who will take the trouble to compare