This new study is the first translation of the papyrus of
Padikakem, with an extensive commentary. The complete early
Ptolemaic manuscript from the Walters Art Museum contains two
uncommon texts in hieratic. The initial text, a Ritual of
Introducing the Multitude on the Last Day of Tekh, is identified as
a temple liturgy by its rubric title, while its themes recall love
poetry and the Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys. The second text,
a rarely attested Book III of glorification spells (sakhw) has an
exclusively mortuary character. The spells of this section largely
originate in the Pyramid Texts and include specific instructions
for recitation by the lector priest. The two texts are established
as a coherent composition that belongs to the Greco-Roman tradition
of merging Egyptian funerary practices with temple liturgies. The
diverse sources and themes of the texts shed light on the evolution
of Osirian and mortuary theologies from the Old Kingdom onwards.
The study also thoroughly examines the development of grammar and
paleography among the parallels.
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