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TWO RAMESSIDE TOMBS
Ceiling may gjve happy life in the necropolis for all eternity to the ka of the
high-priest of the temple of Akheperkere."1
(3) Middle. ["A ritual offering to ... ] the great god . . . who cre-
ated himself and made what is below and what is above, unique among
the august ones and without his peer, Amon, lord of Justice; that he may
give all things good and pure."
"All things good and pure." No age can better the words, though
each will fill them with a content dictated by its ideals.
1 The serpent erect on its tail stands at times by symbolic writing for "to stand," or for its homophone,
"duration of life." So in Boeser, Beschreibung der Aegyptischen Sammlung, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden,
VI, PI. IV; Bergmann, Hieroglyphische Inschriften, PL V; Berlin Museum, No. 2293; Zeitschrift fiir agyptische
Sprache, 57, p. 122. Here it is by error made feminine, as it is also in the same phrase in Tomb 324. I owe the
above equation and the references to Dr. Alan Gardiner. The closing words of each text have been put in in
black paint instead of, in blue. The incompleteness of the decoration, therefore, has the air of being deliberate.
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Ceiling may gjve happy life in the necropolis for all eternity to the ka of the
high-priest of the temple of Akheperkere."1
(3) Middle. ["A ritual offering to ... ] the great god . . . who cre-
ated himself and made what is below and what is above, unique among
the august ones and without his peer, Amon, lord of Justice; that he may
give all things good and pure."
"All things good and pure." No age can better the words, though
each will fill them with a content dictated by its ideals.
1 The serpent erect on its tail stands at times by symbolic writing for "to stand," or for its homophone,
"duration of life." So in Boeser, Beschreibung der Aegyptischen Sammlung, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden,
VI, PI. IV; Bergmann, Hieroglyphische Inschriften, PL V; Berlin Museum, No. 2293; Zeitschrift fiir agyptische
Sprache, 57, p. 122. Here it is by error made feminine, as it is also in the same phrase in Tomb 324. I owe the
above equation and the references to Dr. Alan Gardiner. The closing words of each text have been put in in
black paint instead of, in blue. The incompleteness of the decoration, therefore, has the air of being deliberate.
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