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)

B.D. Chap. CXXV.—(Neg. Conf.)] THE PAPYRUS OF ANI.

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“ evil. (35) Hail, Tmu in thine hour, who comest forth from Tattu, I have not worked
“ treason. (36) Hail, thou who workest in thy heart, who comest forth from Tebtu, I
“ have never befouled the water. (37) Hail, thou bearer of the sistrum, who comest
“ forth from Nu, I have not spoken scornfully. (38) Hail, thou who dost make mankind
“ to flourish, who comest forth from thy hall, I have not cursed God. (39) Hail, Neheb-

“ nefert, who comest forth from.,1 have not behaved myself with arrogance (?).

“ (40) Hail, Neheb-kau, who comest forth from thy city, I have not been overweeningly
“ proud. (41) Hail, Tcheser-tep, who comest forth from thy hiding place, I have
“ never magnified my condition beyond what was fitting. (42) Hail, thou who bringest
“ thine arm, who comest forth from Aukert, I have never slighted the god in my town.”

In the Nebseni papyrus (Naville, Todtenbuch, Bd. I., Bll. 137, 138), the CXXVth
Chapter ends as follows :—

(2) “ Homage to you, O ye gods, I know you, (3) and I know your names. Cast
“ me not down to your (4) knives of slaughter, and bring not my wickedness into the
“ presence of the god whom ye follow, (5) and let not the time of my failings come
“ before you. I pray you, declare me right and true in the presence of the (6) universal
“ God, because I have done that which is right and true in Ta-mera ; I have not cursed
“ the god.

“ Homage to you, O ye gods who live in your hall of (7) Right and Truth, and who
“ have no evil in your bodies, who feed on your own substance in (8) the presence of
“ Horus who liveth in his disk, deliver ye me from Baabi, who feedeth on the inwards of
“ the mighty ones on the day of the great judgment which shall be holden by you. (9)
“ I have come unto you ; I have committed no faults ; I have not sinned ; I have done
“ no evil; I have accused no man falsely; therefore let nothing be done against me. I
“ live in right and truth, (10) and I feed my heart upon right and truth. That which
“ men have bidden I have done, and the gods are satisfied thereat. I have pacified
“ the god, for I have done his (11) will. I have given bread unto the hungry and water
“ unto those who thirst, clothing unto the naked, and a boat unto the shipwrecked
“ mariner. (12) I have made holy offerings unto the gods ; and I have given meals of
“ the tomb to the sainted dead. O, then, deliver ye me, and protect me; accuse me not
“ before the great god. (13) I am pure of mouth, and I am pure of hands. May those who
“ see me say, ‘ Come in peace, come in peace.’ For I have heard the speech which the
“ Ass held with the Cat in the House of Hept-re. (14) I have borne witness before him
“ [the god] and he hath given judgment. I have beheld the dividing of the persea trees
“ (T5) within Re-stau. I offer up prayers in the presence of the gods, knowing that
“ which concerneth them. I have come forward to make a declaration of right and
“ truth, and to place (16) the balance upon its supports within the groves of amaranth.
“ Hail, thou who art exalted upon thy resting place, thou lord of the atef crown, who
“ declarest thy name as the lord of the (17) winds, deliver thou me from thine angels of
“ destruction, who make dire deeds to happen and calamities to arise, and (18) who have
“ no covering upon their faces, because I have done right and truth, O thou Lord of right
“ and truth. I am pure, in my fore-parts have I been made clean, and in my hinder
“ parts have I (19) been purified ; my reins have been bathed in the Pool of right and

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