Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité Small Manuals of the Louvre

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d'une virtuosité technique et d'un réalisme surprenants

François Schuler understood that adapting such a text to a modern sauce would lead to emptying it of its substance

whose daily life she shared and whose work she accompanied

Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité Small Manuals of the LouvreThis work is devoted to the Book of the "Opening of the Mouth", a ritual of which a version is represented on the walls of a long corridor of the tomb of Padimenipet, the largest burial ever excavated in Egypt, located in the Theban necropolis at the foot of the temple of Deir el Bahari. It is dated to the end of the 25th or the beginning of the 26th dynasty, around 650 BC. This work proposes, after the translation followed by the text of the ritual,