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This dissertation focuses on the dissemination and use of texts originally used in royal pyramids during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom. As late as the reign of Unas (ca. 2375-2345 BCE), the prominent priesthood at Memphis undertook the task of fixing these…

The Pyramid Texts, written on the walls of the entrance corridors, antechambers, and funerary chambers of the royal pyramids of the late Fifth and entire Sixth Dynasties, are filled with mythic statements and allusions, without using prose or poetic narrative. They functioned as…

At the end of the Old Kingdom, collections of religious texts began to be inscribed upon the interior walls of the pyramid tombs of kings and queens. As is now widely recognized, this corpus of texts, called "the Pyramid Texts", constitutes the first stage of the Egyptian mortua…

This dissertation discusses the corpus of Pyramid Texts copies recorded on the walls of the burial chambers of the Saite shaft-tombs in the Memphite and Heliopolitan cemeteries. Selections of Pyramid Texts spells were revived as part of the widespread process of Archaism in the …