User:Vorziblix/Amduat

This is an edition of the New Kingdom funerary text commonly called the Amduat, following the version from the tomb of. This is the most complete version that survives today, albeit unfortunately riddled with errors in transmission; emendations based on the other versions, necessary to make the text comprehensible, are given in ⟨angle brackets⟩ to mark additions and {curly brackets} to mark deletions.

The hieroglyphic text follows photographs of the original tomb walls (reproduced in Bucher 1932), with reference to the transcription in Hornung 1963 where helpful. Retrograde writing has been normalized. Some corrections (marked with the appropriate brackets) have been made with reference to other versions of the Amduat. Transliteration and translation are my own, but with occasional consultation of Hornung 1963, Warburton 2007, and Darnell 2018 where interpretation was difficult or ambiguous. Since this translation is made for use in Wiktionary quotations, it errs more on the side of being literal than literary.

The line breaks here are made for convenience, but comments of numbers in the wiki markup of the hieroglyphic text indicate the original line numbering.