Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934 · London : K. Paul, Trench, Trübner · leaf 137
1 14 SOUL AND SPIRIT LEAVING THE TOMB. the body; the picture of the deceased walking away from a “ block of slaughter ” and a knife dripping with blood suggests escape from a cruel death ; the picture of a soul and spirit standing before an open door suggests that the soul has freedom to wander… … not shut up in the tomb for all eternity. But the ideas which prompted the painting of other vignettes are not so clear, e.g., those which accompany Chapters CLXII.-CLXV. in the late or Saite Recension of the Book of the Dead, although, fortunately, the rubrics to these chapters make their object…
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