Preface

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THE EGYPTIAN
BOOK OF THE DEAD.
TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY,


BY THE LATE
SIR P. LE PAGE RENOUF, KNT.

CONTINUED AND COMPLETED BY
PROF. E. NAVILLE, _D.C.L., &c., &c.,_
_Professor of Egyptology at the University of Geneva._


_WITH VIGNETTES AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS._


PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR
THE SOCIETY OF BIBLICAL ARCHÆOLOGY,
37, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY,
LONDON, 1904.




LONDON:
HARRISON AND SONS, PRINTERS IN ORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY,
ST. MARTIN’S LANE.




TO

LADY RENOUF

THIS WORK IS DEDICATED

IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE EXPRESSED WISH OF

HER LATE HUSBAND

SIR PETER LE PAGE RENOUF.




INDEX
TO THE
CHAPTERS
AND REFERENCES
TO THE
VIGNETTES.


CHAPTERS. │ VIGNETTES.

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