The Book of the Dead, Saite through Ptolemaic Books of the Dead: A Study of Traditions Evident in Versions of Texts and Vignettes Volume 9, Part 3 (BD Spells 149-150): Volume 9, Part 3 (BD 149-150)

Volume 9, Part 3 concerns two spells, BD 149 and BD 150. Both concern mounds located in the netherworld. In BD 149 there are 14 mounds, one can observe three distinct versions of the texts, and occasionally seams are evident in the second that reveal sub-traditions in Version 2 that typically separate the main documents of the N3079 Tradition or Group from the other Theban pre-Ptolemaic and Ptolemaic documents, and this can be observed in the illustrations too. BD 150 consists only of illustrations that can be broken down into versions, where these versions have conflicting numbers of mounds. In various documents legends are given for some of the mounds, and these have no bearing on the mounds named in BD 149. Often, BD 150 just consists of the mounds without legends, and they are usually presented in a vertical block in the document, similar to the illustrations for BD 16,110, 125, 143, 151, and 161.