Pyramid Texts

Pyramid text in the Pyramid of Unas I

Pyramid Texts is the name for several religious texts, found on the wall of several pyramids of the 5th and 6th and 8th dynasties. They are the biggest corpus of Ancient Egyptian texts.

Pyramid Texts Media

• Hieroglyph Text from Teti I pyramid.jpg

  Pyramid Text inscribed on the wall of a subterranean room in Teti's pyramid, at Saqqara

• Pyramid of Merenre, Saqqara, 1990ies.jpg

  Pyramid of Merenre I, one of the earliest pyramids in which Maspero discovered the Pyramid Texts.

• Relief fragment with the spells 354 and 255 with the Pyramid Texts. From Saqqara, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin.jpg

  Painted relief fragment with the spells 354 and 255 of Pyramid Texts. From the pyramid of Pepi II at Saqqara. Neues Museum

• Ounas-chambre.jpg

  Maspero in the burial chamber of Unas' pyramid, which has lines of protective spells on the west gable, which are the only inscriptions on the walls surrounding the sarcophagus

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  Pyramid of Teti

• Pyramid Text utterances 302 to 312 on Unas' burial chamber wall

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  Pyramid text utterances 273 to 276 on Unas' burial chamber wall