Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Oth.]: 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)

THE BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Plates XXXV., XXXVI.

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PLATES XXXV. AND XXXVI.

Vignette : A hall, within which, on the left, Ani stands before two tables
of offerings bearing libation water and lotus-flowers, with hands raised, adoring
Ra, hawk-headed.1 Next are ranged seven cows, each one couchant before a table
of offerings, and each having a menat attached to the neck ;2 and a bull standing
before a table of offerings. Behind them are four rudders ; and on the extreme
righi are four triads of gods, each triad having a table of ofiferings bearing a libation
vase and a lotus-flower (?).

Text : [Ciiapter CXLVIII.]. (1) Saith Osiris Ani, triumphant : “ Homage
“ to thee, (2) O thou lord, thou lord of right and truth, the One, the lord of eternity
“ and creator (3) of everlastingness, I have come unto thee, O my lord Ra.
“ I have made (4) meat offerings unto the seven kine and unto their bull. O ye
“ who give (5) cakes and ale to the shining ones, grant ye to my soul to be with

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“ Osiris the lord of eternity, the prince, the lord of everlastingness, the great god, the

governor of Akertet.” Behind the god stands a female figure wearing upon her head, emblematic

of “ the beautiful Amenta,” with both her hands “ extended to receive ” the deceased. The address to
Osiris and Amenta by the deceased reads: “ Homage to thee, O thou Bull of Amentet, Prince, lord
of everlastingness, the great god, the governor of Akertet, receive thou the Osiris into the beautiful
Amentet in peace, and may it stretch forth its hands to receive me.”

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| hatet sahet, “ the divine noble one of the nort’n (?) ”; (5)
urt meru tesert, “the greatly beloved, redofhair”; (^) Q q

ynemt anxit, “ the consort of life ”; (7) ^ I II <~> —«— ^ ^ sexem ren-s em

abet-s, “her name prevaileth in her dwelling”; (8) ^ Jd (j [j ^ ka t'ai

kauit, “ Bull, making the kine to be fruitful.”