7 While this explanation of the daily course of the sun was alluded to already in the Pyramid Texts (.).
6 Originally published in Frankfort 1933, pl.
4The most important of such documents are pCarlsberg I and pCarlsberg Ia, both of which were written by the same scribe and contain demotic commentaries to the text. 2 The importance of this treatise as a “handbook of religious astronomy” 3 was most likely instrumental in its later transmission, as attested by various hieratic papyri, which were found in the temple archives of Tebtynis, and which are all datable to the 2nd century ad. 1 The core of this composition is almost certainly older than its first monumental attestation, in the Osireion of Seti I at Abydos (13th century bce), and may have its roots in the Middle Kingdom, if not even in the Old Kingdom. Additional fragments of the Book of Nut found on papyri (.)ġThe Book of Nut, whose original title was “Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars,” is a cosmographical composition, which aimed at providing the religious background to the topography of the sky and to various celestial phenomena, including the course of the stars, the sun, the moon, and possibly also the planets.
4 Regarding the library of the temple of Tebtynis, see, e.g., Ryholt 2005.
3 Discussion and additional references in von Lieven 2007, pp. 296–299.
About the original title of this text, see there, pp. 48 (.)
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