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"The Book of the Dead as canon"

John Gee

When the term canon is used in ancient Egypt, it is usually applied to proportions in artwork

(Iversen 1968; Simon 1993), or to the king list on P.Turin 1874 (Gardiner 1959; Malék 1982).

Outside of Egyptian art, however, canon is normally applied to a ‘collection or list of books,’

distinguishing that collection or list as sacred, and can refer to ‘any set of sacred books’

(

OED

, s.v. canon). The question can at least be asked: did the ancient Egyptians have a canon

in the sense of a set of sacred writings?