Search Results: The Pillow Book

A detail from a Book of the Dead, on papyrus showing hieratic writing of Hornefer, Ptolemaic Period, provenance unknown. (Museo Castello Sforzesco, Milan)

A detail from the Book of the Dead of Tayesnakht from Thebes, Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 BCE. Pharaohs often wore two crowns to signify the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt. (Egyptian Museum, Turin)

Mummy wrapping of a man named Djedher, son of Sekhmetnefret, inscribed in hieratic with funerary texts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead. From Saqqara, Egypt, Late Period of ancient Egypt, 4th century BCE or later. The British Museum, London...

Weighing of the heart scene, with Ammit, the 'Devourer of the Damned' sitting, from the Egyptian Book of the Dead of Hunefer, Egypt, 19th Dynasty. The British Museum, London.

The Book of Kells, (folio 292r), c. 800 CE, showing the lavishly decorated text that opens the Gospel of John. (Trinity College Library)

Folio 5 of the Book of Kells with the Eusebian Canons. Trinity College Library

The Book of the Dead of Henuttawy. The winged serpent god Nehebkau is depicted on the left. In the center of the papyrus is Osiris, who lies beneath the personification of the night sky. On the right side of the scene, the goddess Nut arches...

fol. 170r of the Book of Ballymote (AD 1390), part of the Auraicept na n-Éces, explaining the Ogham script. the page shows varianst of Ogham, nrs. 43 to 77 of 92 in total, including shield ogham (nr. 73).

Book of Revelation, folio 6v and 7r of illuminated manuscript Fr 403 by Maître de Sarum and Hennequin de Bruges, 1240-1250. National Library of France, Paris.

This is the Book of the Dead of Hunefer (Hw-nfr). There are fully colored vignettes (scenes) with a colored border. The scenes demonstrate episodes in Hunefer's judgement in the afterlife. From Egypt. 19th Dynasty, 1292–1189 BCE. (The British...