The Litany of the Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian text in the style of a

funerary text Funerary texts or funerary literature feature in many belief systems. Its purpose is usually to provide guidance to the newly deceased or the soon-to-be-deceased about how to survive and prosper in the afterlife. Antiquity The most famous example ...

, ( offering formula). A small portion of the text is contained in a

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wall relief fragment of painted

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located in the

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(no. EA 5610). The painted hieroglyphs for the relief segment in the tomb of the 19th Dynasty pharaoh

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are also carved in low raised relief.

The Litany of the Eye of Horus

''The Litany of the Eye of Horus'' is a

Middle Egyptian The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the deciphe ...

offering liturgy.Parkinson, 1999, p. 77.

References

*Parkinson, 1999. ''Cracking Codes: The Rosetta Stone and Decipherment'', Richard Parkinson, c 1999, Univ. of California Press Ancient Egyptian funerary texts {{AncientEgypt-stub

The Litany of the Eye of Horus

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