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Amduat.

An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.

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  1. An ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom describing the journey of the sun through the underworld at night.

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From a 19th-century transcription of Egyptian jmj-dwꜣt (literally “(that which) is in the afterworld”), a title applied to an abridgement of this text in some papyri of the Third Intermediate Period. Older and more complete exemplars of the text instead title it zẖꜣ-n-ꜥt-jmnt (“the Treatise of the Hidden Chamber”).

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