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Excerpt from The Book of the Dead: The Chapters of Coming Forth by Day; The Egyptian Text According to the Theban Recension in Hieroglyphic Edited From Numerous Papyri, With a Translation, Vocabulary, Etc The order of the letters and syllables is that adopted by the late Dr. Brugsch and M. Pierret for the values of the latter the reader is referred to the grammars and sign-lists. My thanks are due to Mr. Holzhausen of Vienna for the care which he has taken in printing the long series of hieroglyphic texts and this Vocabulary. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.