ID: 901002564 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002564	Record Type: Literature

	Book of the Dead (Egyptian funerary text )

Note: Intricate set of religious writings to help the deceased achieve a blessed afterlife in union with the solar god Re and the netherworld god Osiris.

Names:

	Book of the Dead (Egyptian funerary text ) (preferred,English-P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: Philosophy, Religion> (P)
		............Book of the Dead (Egyptian funerary text ) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... funerary text
	.....(religious texts, documents by function, document genres, information forms (objects), Information Forms (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture)
	.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Book of the Dead (Egyptian funerary text )
	................Getty Museum, Egyptian Book of the Dead (2023-2024)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Getty Museum, Egyptian Book of the Dead (2023-2024)