Budge, Ernest A. Wallis: Some account of the collection of Egyptian antiquities in the possession of Lady Meux: of Theobalds Park, Waltham Cross (London, 1896)

Nos. 36—39.
PAPYRI.

36. Portion of a hieroglyphic copy of the Book of
the Dead which was written during the Ptolemaic

period for a

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Ta-ukesh, son of the lady of the house Hernua.
This papyrus is inscribed with part of the iSth
chapter of the Book of the Dead, and it con-
tains 51 perpendicular lines of writing, and mea-
sures 3 ft. 2 in., by 7 in. The vignettes are traced
in outline and represent:—(1) the deceased ador-
ing his soul, (2) the deceased kneeling in adora-
tion before several groups of gods; (3) the tet
n, emblem of stability; (4) the buckle (ft, em-
blem of protection; (5) the collar ^?, with two
hawks' heads; (6) two sceptres in shrines fj] [5|,
and the uichat winged and walking.

37. Forty fragments of a papyrus inscribed in hieratic
with the 17th chapter of the Book of the Dead. At
one end is part of a coloured vignette in which the

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