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. CLXXXVI.]

THE PAPYRUS OF ANI.

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left the emblem of life. Before her are tables of meat and drink offerings and
flowers. Behind the hippopotamus, the divine cow, Meh-urit, symbolizing the
same goddess, looks out from the funeral mountain, wearing the menat on her
neck. At the foot of the mountain is the tomb ; and in the foreground grows a
group of flowering plants.

Text : [Chapter CLXXXVI.] Hathor, lady of Amentet, dweller in the land
of Urt, lady of Ta-sert, the Eye of Ra, the dweller in his brow, the beautiful Face
in the Boat of Millions of Years.1.

baiu - f Tettet sefsefet - f

his souls in Tattu, his might

-'T-Jl'vb T AMAAA IJ n 1 I

em Suten-henen ertai

in Suten-henen, and placing

ayemu - f em Annu aa

the visible emblems of himself in Annu, and the might


cs \\
nA

I 1

yeperu - f em dbti

of his forms in the place of purification.

z - nek ab - a yer maa
I have come to thee, my heart is right,


hati - d an ker

my breast is without deceit,

A_fl

ta - k

grant thou

un - d emma

that I may be among

X Ci ^

em sesiu - k

among thy followers.

anyiu
the living,


yet - d

that I may sail down

yent - a

and that I may sail up

1 The few remaining words are corrupt.