Budge, Ernest A. Wallis [Hrsg.]: The book of the dead: facsimiles of the papyri of Hunefer, Anhai, Kerāsher and Netchemet ; with supplementary text from the papyrus of Nu with transcripts, etc. (London, 1899)

THE PAPYRUS OF TITE ROYAL MOTHER NETCHEMET.

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and gave [him] (6) splendour in Re-stau.
O lord of the light-rays, enter thou and
consume the worms which are in Amentet.
O thou mighty one who dwellest in Tattu,
hear [my] words and behold (7) ; and may
those who dwell in misery fear thee as thou
comest forth with the sentence to the sacred
block. Thou comest forth bearing the message
(8) of Neb-er-tcher, and Horus hath taken
possession of thy throne for thee. Thy father,
the lord of those who are in the divine boat,
the lord of fear of those who dwell in the
Tuat (i.e., the underworld), hath ascribed praise
unto thee. (9) Thou art Idorus, and thou
comest bearing tidings. I pray that thou
wilt come, and that thou wilt speak and
see in Annu (Ideliopolis). The aged shall
stand up on their perches before thee,

“ the venerable Sahu; (10) and the princes
“ of heaven shall magnify (?) thee upon their
“ perches ; and they shall bind up thy
“ swathing in Annu. Thou hast conquered
“ heaven, and thou hast inherited the earth, and
“ enclosed it within thy grasp ; and heaven and
“ earth shall not (11) be snatched away from thee.
“ For behold, thou art the Prince of the gods,
“ thou art the divine seat of the mighty one of
“ the months, thou art the height of heaven,

“ and on festivals of the new moon.

“(12) before thee. Thou hast destroyed the
“ serpents, whcrefore Amentet and the two
“ horizons flourish ; thou turnest thereunto
“ knowing what is therem, thou hast thy
“ food, and thy mother giveth unto thee her
“ breast, and (13) thou art stablished in the
“ horizon.”