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Chapter 7 (part 9)
The copy of the work in the tomb of Amen-hetep III., written in hieratic, was well preserved in Champollion's time, but is now illegible; see Champollion, Lettres , 13 e Lettre; and Champollion, Monuments , iii.
232-234.
The text of the Third Hour was published by Lepsius, Denkmäler , iii.
78 and 79.
See also Description de l'Égypte , Antiq.
tom.
iii.
193, tom.
x., 218, and plates, tom.
ii., 80, 81; and Lefébure in Mémoires Mission Arch.
Française , tom.
iii., p.
172.
82:1 See Mémoires publiés par les membres de la Miss.
Arch.
Française , tom.
ii., Paris, 1886.
82:2 See Études de Mythologie et d'Archéologie Egyptiennes , in Bibliothèque Égyptologique , tom.
ii., p.
1 ff., Paris, 1893.
82:3 See Lefébure, op.
cit.
, tom.
iii., fasc.
1, p.
48 ff.
82:4 See E.
de Rougé, Notice Sommaire des Monuments Égyptiens exposés dans les Galeries du Musée du Louvre , Paris, 1876, p.
51.
83:1 See E.
de Rougé, Notice Sommaire , p.
52.
It contains the figures of the eleven divisions, with very few inscriptions; see Jéquier, Le Livre de ce qu'il y a dans l'Hades , p.
25.
83:2 See E.
de Rougé, Notice Sommaire , p.
52.
This sarcophagus is made of basalt, is beautifully cut, and was brought to France by Champollion.
See also Sharpe, Egyptian Inscriptions , vol.
ii., plates 1-24.
83:3 See Schäfer in Jéquier, op.
cit.
, p.
26, notes 3 and 4.
83:4 See Catalogue des Manuscrits Égyptiens , Paris, 1881, p.
15.
83:5 See Pierret, Études Égyptologiques , tom.
ii., p.
103-148.
83:6 See Lanzone, Le Domicile des Esprits , Paris, 1879, folio.
83:7 See Catalogue du Musée Égyptien de Leyde , pp.
253-255.
83:8 See Jéquier, op.
cit.
, p.
27.
84:1 Papyrus Funéraire Hiéroglyphique, Sha-am-Tua (T.
71).
Publié dans la 32ième Livraison des Monuments Égyptiens du Musée , Leyden, 1894.
84:2 See Devéria, Catalogue, Sect.
ii., Le Livre de L'Hémisphère Inférieur .
85:1 See The Alabaster Sarcophagus of Oimenepthah I., King of Egypt, now in Sir John Soane's Museum, Lincoln's Inn Fields, drawn p.
86 by Joseph Bonomi, and described by Samuel Sharpe , London, 1864.
A description of the pictures and texts was given by M.
Pierret in the Revue Archéologique for 1870; small portions of the text were discussed by Goodwin and Renouf in Aeg.
Zeit.
, 1873, p.
138, and 1874, p.
101; and an English rendering of the whole text was given by E.
Lefébure, in the Records of the Past , vol.
Themes
◆Numerical Mysticismtheology
Numbers, proportions, and mathematical relationships as the underlying structure of divine reality.
The underworld is structured into twelve numbered divisions, indicating a numerical organization of the afterlife realm.