![]() ![]() ![]() The spells, which were associated with amulets, form part of the protective, apotropaic and revivifying measures associated with the head. A spell around the edge of the hypocephali reveals important concepts surrounding the transfiguration of the deceased into a luminous and “effective” being. This paper focuses on the analysis of the mostly unedited texts on the masks. There are four more masks with BD 151a in museums – one of which is inscribed also with BD 162 (spell to cause a flame at the head), and two masks with BD 19, one of which is to date unpublished. ![]() The mask in Florence is inscribed also with BD 19 (spell for the wreath of justification), and other texts. Abstract: To date, four Ptolemaic mummy masks with chapter 151a of the Book of the Dead (spell with Anubis and the mask) inscribed on a fillet around the head are known: a mask at the Louvre and one in Bonn – both of which showing a hypocephalus on the top of head, a mask in Florence, and one from Abydos, whose location is unknown. ![]()
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