Lot Essay
Ink and typed inscribed label on items 2 and 3.
Usually, texts are either magical or funerary, as they have different functions: one protecting the person during life, the other in the afterlife, which makes the funerary magical text (item two) quite rare. But it also makes it difficult to translate, like most magical texts. The mention of the Jackal of Upper Egypt can also be found in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Text and the Middle Kingdom Coffin Text, two very important funerary texts that were used again in private tombs from the end of the Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period.
Usually, texts are either magical or funerary, as they have different functions: one protecting the person during life, the other in the afterlife, which makes the funerary magical text (item two) quite rare. But it also makes it difficult to translate, like most magical texts. The mention of the Jackal of Upper Egypt can also be found in the Old Kingdom Pyramid Text and the Middle Kingdom Coffin Text, two very important funerary texts that were used again in private tombs from the end of the Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period.