The spells, which were associated with amulets, form part of the protective, apotropaic and revivifying measures associated with the head. A spell around the edge of the hypocephali reveals important concepts surrounding the transfiguration of the deceased into a luminous and “effective” being. This paper focuses on the analysis of the mostly unedited texts on the masks. There are four more masks with BD 151a in museums – one of which is inscribed also with BD 162 (spell to cause a flame at the head), and two masks with BD 19, one of which is to date unpublished. The mask in Florence is inscribed also with BD 19 (spell for the wreath of justification), and other texts. Abstract: To date, four Ptolemaic mummy masks with chapter 151a of the Book of the Dead (spell with Anubis and the mask) inscribed on a fillet around the head are known: a mask at the Louvre and one in Bonn – both of which showing a hypocephalus on the top of head, a mask in Florence, and one from Abydos, whose location is unknown.
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