The Book of the Dead
£6,600
Unique hand made piece
Sculpted solely from the pages of a blessed Holy Bible
Paper mâché
Hand rendered oxidisation
12cm x 5cm x 10cm
The Necronomicon is an ancient Egyptian funerary text generally written on papyrus and used from the beginning of the New Kingdom (around 1550 BCE) to around 50 BCE.
The original Egyptian name for the text, transliterates as Book of Coming Forth by Day or Book of Emerging Forth into the Light.
It is the closest term to describe the loose collection of texts consisting of a number of magic spells intended to assist a dead person’s journey through the Duat, or underworld, and into the afterlife and written by many priests over a period of about 1,000 years.