Griffith, Francis Ll. [Editor]: The demotic magical papyrus of London and Leiden (Band 1) (London, 1904)

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gods, and let them sit."'' When they (29) are seated,
you say c Bring in a (jar of) wine, broach it for the gods;
bring in some bread, let them eat, let them drink,'

Col. III.

(1) 'let them eat, let them drink, let them pass a
festal day.' When they have finished, you speak to
Anubis {sic) saying ' Dost thou make inquiry for me ? '
If he says ' At once,' you say to him ' The god who will
make my inquiry (2) to-day, let him stand up.' If he
says 'He has stood up,' you say to him (i.e. the child)
' Say to Anubis " Carry off the things from the midst" ' ;
you cry (3) before him (i.e. the god) instantly saying
' O Agathodaemon of to-day, lord of to-day, O thou
whose (possession) these moments are!' You cause
him (the boy) to say (4) to Anubis ' The god who will
inquire for me to-day, let him tell me his name.' When
he stands up and tells his name, you ask him (5) concern-
ing everything that you wish.

Its spirit-gathering. You take seven new bricks,
before they have been moved so as to turn them (6)
to the other face ; you take them, you being pure,
without touching them against anything on earth, and
you place them in their manner in which they were (7)
placed, again ; and you place three tiles under the oil;
and the other four tiles, you arrange them about the
child without (8) touching any part of him against the
ground; or seven palm-sticks, you treat them in this
fashion also. And you take seven clean loaves (9) and
arrange them around the oil, with seven lumps of salt,

1. 6. nte nb. The reading not quite certain, but extremely probable.

1. 7. p qt. The usual group for qt is very much abbreviated, and is
thus identical with that for wh,' wish,' but there can be little doubt of the

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reading. The meaning must be that the bricks are laid about the boy so
that he can stand or sit on them without touching the ground.

1. 9. tyk can scarcely be other than Sah. t^. The otiose y may be

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