The APIs Embalming Ritual: P. Vindob. 3873

by R.L. Vos

This book is the first complete edition of a hieratic-demotic papyrus preserved to this day in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna. The papyrus dates back to the middle of the second century B.C. and contains a minute discription of a considerable part of the embalming and burial rites of the Apis, the sacred bull of the Egyptians. The Vienna papyrus is the only authentic document to give a coherent picture of the course of events during the embalming...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9068314386
• ISBN13: 9789068314380
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Peeters
• Length: 423 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.4" x 9.7"