The fragment of papyrus belonging to the scribe Pashed contains in an elegant hieroglyph the formulas to exit during the day, which the Egyptologists called the Book of the Dead. Appearing at the beginning of the New Kingdom and in use until the Ptolemaic Era, the Book of the Dead consists of a series of magical-ritual formulas (in total 192) that helped the deceased to overcome the obstacles present in the perilous journey towards the new eternal life, in the Afterlife. The formulas of the text could be written not only on papyrus scrolls, which were placed inside the sarcophagus, but also partly on the sarcophagi, on the walls of the tomb itself, and on some of the funerary objects.
