Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité through the diversity of subjects

through the diversity of subjects and iconographic quality

Susceptible to numerous interpretations

This period marked the peak of the spread of Mesopotamian writing and languages: the international language was Akkadian

Le poème d'Hésiode n'est pas seulement un chef-d'œuvre de la littérature antique

Le Livre de l'Ouverture de la Bouche de l'Egypte ancienne. Antiquité through the diversity of subjectsThis 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,