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The Book of Nut (original title: "The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars") is a collection of ancient Egyptian astronomical texts, also covering various mythological subjects. These texts focus on the cycles of the stars of the decans, the movements of the moon, the sun and the planets, on the sundials, and related matters. This title was given to the book because of the depiction of the sky goddess Nut arching over the earth in some copies of the text. She is supported by the god of the air Shu. The Book of Nut texts include material from different periods of Egyptian history. The original name of the book, 'The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars', was discovered by Alexandra von Lieven in one of the manuscript fragments, and published in 2007.〔Alexandra von Lieven, (''Translating the Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars.'' ) in Annette Imhausen, Tanja Pommerening, eds, ''Writings of Early Scholars in the Ancient Near East, Egypt, Rome, and Greece: Translating Ancient Scientific Texts.'' Volume 286 of Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Walter de Gruyter, 2010 ISBN 3110229935〕 One of the big themes of the Book of Nut is the concept of sunrise as the mythological rebirth. ==The texts== There are 9 different copies of the book of various dates. Three copies are found on monuments, and 6 more are found in the papyri of the 2nd century AD coming from the temple library in ancient Tebtunis, a town in the southern Faiyum Oasis. These include texts both in hieratic and demotic; some parts are also written in hieroglyphs. Three texts of the Book of Nut are preserved on monuments: the tomb of Ramses IV, The Cenotaph of Seti I at the Osireion in Abydos, and the tomb of the noblewoman Mutirdis (TT410) of the 26th Dynasty . These monumental copies are written in hieroglyphs. The Tebtunis textual material is currently scattered all over the world due to its complex excavation and acquisition history. There are several thousand fragments of unpublished papyri held by various museums that are being evaluated by scholars. The best manuscripts are the demotic Carlsberg papyri 1, and 1a; they were written by the same scribe. Other manuscripts are mostly fragmentary. There are substantial differences between all these copies, indicating that the textual tradition of the Book of Nut was still very much alive even in the 2nd century AD. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Book of Nut」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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