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)

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7HE PAPYRUS OF NU, T7IE SON OF AMFN-HFTFP AND SEN-SFNEB.

seal,” ancl clirector of the chancery of Egypt, and
that his father Amen-hetep held the same appoint-
ment ; it is clear, too, that both father and son
must have been men of rank and learning. The
name Amen-hetep indicates that they flourished
in the XVIIIth dynasty, under one of the four
kings who bore that name. Sen-seneb, the name
of Nu’s mother, is very rare,1 and it is characteristic
of the XVII Ith and preceding dynasty. The wife
of the artist and scribe Nebseni bore the name,
ancl it is well known that the Papyrus of Nebseni is
a procluct of the first half of the XV11 Ith dynasty ;
and as Nu, like Nebseni, is often callecl ^ ** “ hieb
amakh,” i.e., “ lord of reverence,” it is pretty
certain that the Papyrus of Nu ancl that of
Nebseni were written about the same date. In

% maa kkeru, “ true


two places the word
of voice,” or “ triumphant,” is spelt
or (see Chapter CXXVI., line i,

and Chapter CXLVIII., line i) ; this is an
archaic spelling of the worcls also met with in
the Papyrus of Amen-hetep,2 which also belongs
to the XVIIIth clynasty. It is worthy of note,
too, as a mark of the antiquity of the papyrus,
that the word aha, f , is usually spelt —

The following is a list of the Chapters in the
order in which they occur in the papyrus:—

XVII., XVIII., I., XXII., XXIII., XXV.,
XXVI., XXVIII., XXVII., XXX.A, XLIII.,
XXIV., XXXI., XXXIII., XXXIV., XXXV.,
LXXIV., XLV., XCIII., XCI., XLI., XLII.,

1 See Lieblein, Dictionnaire de Noms Hiiroglyphiques, Livr.
III., No. 1558, p. 621 ; ancl No. 1963, p. 763.

2 See Naville, Todtenbuch, Vol. I., pl. 40, 11. 1 ancl 7.

XIV., LXVIII., XC.IL, LXIII.a, CV„ XCV„
LXXII., LXXI., CVI„ XL„ XC„ CVIIL,
XLVII., CIV„ CIIL, LI„ CXIX„ XXXVI.,
XXXVII., LXXIX., CXVIL, CXVIII.,
XXI., XII., CXXII., XCVIII., LXXVI.,
LXXXV. (Vignette), LXXXII. (Vignette),
LXXVII. (Vignette), LXXXVI. (Vignette),
CXXIV., LXXXIII. (Vignette), LXXXIV.
(Vignette), LXXXI.a (Vignette), LXXXVII.
(Vignette), LXXXVIII. (Vignette), CXXXII.,

cxlviii., lii., LIIL, LXI., L.b, lvi.,
LVIL, LIV., XXXVIII., LV., XXIX.,
XLVI., CIX., IX., CXXXII., XCIV.,
LX11 I.b, VI11., LXIV. (short version), 11., 111.,
CLII., LXXV., LXXVIII., CXXXIII.,
LXV., CXXXIII. (bis), LXVII., CLXXIX.,
CXXIII., CXLL, CXLVIII., CXXXVI.,
CXXXIV., CXXX., CXXXI., LXXXIX.,
CLIV., CXV., CXVI., CXII., CXIII.,
CXXXVIIL, CLXXXVII., CLXXXIX.,
XLIV., L., CLXXXVIIL, IV., XCVI.,

XCVII, CLIII.a, CLIIIb, LXIV. (long
version), XXX.b, XI., V., VI., XCIX. (Vignette),
VII., CLXXVL, CXXV., CXXVI. (Vignette),
CXLV. (Vignette), CXLIV. (Vignette),
CXXXVII.A (Vignette), CI., CLVI., CLV.,
CLI., C., CII., CXXXVI.a, CXXXVI.b,
CXLIX. (Vignette), CL. A list of the Chapters
according to the numeration of Lepsius will be
found in the table of contents to this volume. A
number of the Chapters from this papyrus were
printed in the Chapters of Coming forth by Day
(ed. Budge), London, 1898, and in a companion
volume to that work tentative translations were
given.