Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité d'une virtuosité technique et d'un

d'une virtuosité technique et d'un réalisme surprenants

Small Manuals of the Louvre School

in the following plays

through the diversity of subjects and iconographic quality

Susceptible to numerous interpretations

Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité d'une virtuosité technique et d'unThis 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,