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Type: Book
ISBN: 9781613101919, 1613101910
Page count: 320
Language: English
Published: 1952
Publisher: London, England: Longmans, Green, & Co.
Author: Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer
Translator: Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer
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The Pyramid Texts: In Translation and Commentary (Vol. I) is a 1952 book published by Samuel A. B. Mercer. It is the first book of a four volume set that includes translations of the Egyptian Pyramid Texts. The translations are organized into Utterances and line numbers. Mercer provides commentary. This work includes various creation and prestige myths, and is an important part of scholarship on ancient Egypt.

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The religion of ancient Egypt represents a cultural identity that lasted from ca. 3500 BCE to 300 CE, and included hundreds of myths, deities, and customs.

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Egyptian Heliopolis

Creation myth

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Egyptian Hermopolis

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Pyramid of Pepi II

Limestone True Pyramid

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Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer

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Samuel Alfred Browne Mercer was an Egyptologist who published over two hundred works in his lifetime.
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Mercer, Samuel A. B. The Pyramid Texts: In Translation and Commentary, Vol. I. Vol 1. London, UK: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1952.

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