5) El texto presenta algunas referencias que apoyan la idea de sostener este momento como marco temporal, como la mencion a Herihor, Semendes y Tenetamon (M 1,1; 1, 15), personajes reales que formaban parte importante de la politica egipcia durante el reinado de Ramses XI.
Herihor, sumo sacerdote de Amon en el templo de Karnak y visir del Alto Egipto, es quien gobierna desde el sur, (18) y quien envia en mision a Libano a Unamon.
Journey through the afterlife: ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead' explores the wealth of visual material from the British Museum's collection, such as King
Herihor and Queen Nodjmet adore Osiris, a detail from the Book of the Dead of Nodjmet.
1: Scenes of King
Herihor in the Court (Chicago, 1979) and The Temple of Khonsu, vol.
As closing hypotheses, he throws in an argument that the text itself may have been composed in the Amun temple at El Hiba at the time of Sheshonq; and that the text itself--a single manuscript with no known history of textual transmission--may be a unique manuscript, containing the literary elaboration of an oral recitation, based on an oral tradition in the temple context that goes back to actual people and real events at the time of
Herihor.
These are extremely valuable and admirably up-to-date, even covering such issues as the sequence of
Herihor and Piankh and their postulated wives--demonstration of Sweeney's regard for matters of history and her mastery of the field of Egyptology, revealed also in the book's extensive bibliography.
