id: 102388 accession number: 1921.1032 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1921.1032 updated: 2023-04-23 11:15:51.755000 Book of the Dead of Hori, c. 1069–945 BC. Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 21. Papyrus; overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund 1921.1032 title: Book of the Dead of Hori title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1069–945 BC creation date earliest: -1069 creation date latest: -945 current location: 107 Egyptian creditline: The Charles W. Harkness Endowment Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 21 technique: papyrus department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art collection: Egypt - New Kingdom type: Funerary Equipment find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 23 cm (9 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-06-09T00:00:00 The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Probably Thebes. Purchased at Sotheby's, London, through Howard Carter date: footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1921- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: The Egyptian Book of the Dead--or as they called it, the Book of Going Forth By Day--was not a single, unified, and authoritative manuscript, but a handful of special spells selected from a pool of about 200 age-old magical formulae. This illustrated Book of the Dead inscribed for the priest Hori includes the so-called Book of Gates. There are sixteen gates through which Hori must pass, each guarded by a fierce, animal-headed, knife-brandishing monster. Among them are "The Mistress of Wrath," "The Fiery One," and the "Long-Horned Bull." To reach the afterlife, Hori must present the gate-keepers with a series of secret passwords provided for him in the papyrus. At the far right, we see Hori, who having completed his task, is now reborn. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 8, no. 9 (1921): 138-41. page number: Mentioned: p. 138 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136519 Cooney, John D. "Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (1968): 262-71. page number: Figs. 9, 10, details url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152230 Heerma van Voss, Matthieu Sybrand Huibert Gerard. Ägypten, die 21. Dynastie. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1982. page number: pp. 7-8, figs. 1-3 url: Niwinski, Andrzej. Studies on the Illustrated Theban Funerary Papyri of the 11th and 10th Centuries B.C. Freiburg, Schweiz: Universitätsverlag, 1989. page number: Mentioned: p. 305 url: James, T. G. H. "Howard Carter and The Cleveland Museum of Art.". Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991 page number: Mentioned: pp.66-77 url: Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 page number: Reproduced: p. 370-71; Mentioned: p. 370-373 url: Sims, Lowery S. The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content, and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned: p. 115; Reproduced: p. 38-9. No. 6 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1032/1921.1032_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1032/1921.1032_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1921.1032/1921.1032_full.tif