Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Bearb.]: The book of the dead: the Papyrus Ani in the British Museum ; the Egyptian text with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introd. etc. ([Text]) (London, 1895)

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TIIE BOOK OF TIIE DEAD.

[Plates VII.-X.

kneeling and extends his left hand over a pool (?) in which is an eye (to
illustrate line 46).

2. The god 'af\~fl25fl AAAAAA ^ Uatch-ura, “ Great Green Water,” with each

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hand extended over a pool; that under his right hand is called (
She en hesmen, “ Pool of Natron,” and that under his left hand

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ocd She en Maaaat, “ Pool of Nitre or Salt ” (to illustrate lines 47-50).

3. A pylon with doors, called <~>l|l757 Re-stau, “ Gate of the funereal


passages” (to illustrate lines 56-58).

4. The utchat facing to the left above a pylon (to illustrate line 73).

5. The cow

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(Fig. 1) Mehtirt maat Ra, “Mehurt, the

eye of Ra,” with a flail
round her neck the collar

and having on her head a disk and horns \»y and
and mendt §1 (to illustrate lines 75-79).1

Fig. 1.

6. A funereal chest from which emerge the head of Ra, and his

two arms and hands, each holding the emblem of life fv The chest,
which is called ^ ^ ^ J| aat Abtu, “ the district of Abydos,” or the
“ burial place of the East,” has upon its side figures of the four children of

1 In the papyrus of Hunefer (British Museum papyrus No. 9901) the god Thoth is represented
offering the utchat to the Mehurt cow. (Fig. 2.)

Fig. 2.