I "Libri della Respirazione" nei papiri del Museo Egizio

Lecture with Letizia Loprieno (Universität Heidelberg/Egyptian Museum).

The ‘Breathing Books’ are texts from funerary literature with the purpose of granting the deceased access to the afterlife. The Egyptian Museum preserves 22 unpublished papyri containing these books, which are currently being studied. The lecture aims to give a general overview of the study of these texts.

Booking required.