| 单词 | coffin texts |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCoffin Texts Coffin Texts n. texts inscribed on the inside of coffins during the Middle Kingdom in Egypt. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > receptacle for remains > [noun] > coffin > stone coffin > texts inscribed inside > ancient Egypt Coffin Texts1912 1912 J. H. Breasted Relig. Anc. Egypt viii. 273 Written on the inner surfaces of the heavy cedar coffins..are found..mortuary texts... These texts as a class are sometimes designated as the Book of the Dead... I have for convenience termed them Coffin Texts, a designation drawn from the place in which they are found, and thus parallel with the Pyramid Texts. 1947 I. E. S. Edwards Pyramids of Egypt v. 153 The texts..were written on the interior surfaces of the rectangular wooden coffins used in that period—a fact which has caused them to become known as the Coffin Texts. < as lemmas |
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