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bull (?) of bulls, (29) son of Nut, open to me, I am
the Opener of earth, that came forth from Geb, hail !
[I am I, I,] I, E, E, E, [He, He, He,] (30) Ho, Ho, Ho ;
I am Anepo, Miri-po-re, Maat (?) Ib, Thi[bio, Ar]oui,
Ouoou, [Iaho.'] (31) Formula: blood of a smim-goose,
blood of a hoopoe, blood of a n[ightjar], ankh-amu plant,
\senepe plant], (32)' Great-of-Amen ' plant, qes-ankh stone,-
genuine lapis-lazuli, myrrh,' footprint-of-Isis 'plant, pound,
make into a ball, [you paint] your [eyes] with it; put (?)
a goat's-[tear] (33) in (?) a 'pleasure-wood' of ani or
ebony wood, [you bind it (?)] around (?) you [with a]
(34) strip of male-palm fibre in [an] elevated place
opposite the sun after putting [the ointment as above on]
your eyes ... (35) according to what is prescribed for it.
Col. XI.
1. A spell of giving favour: 'Come to me, O
thy beautiful name. O Thoth, hasten (bis); come to me.
(2) Let me see thy beautiful face here to-day
[I stand(?)] being in the form of an ape; and do thou
greet (?) me (3) with praise and adoration (?) with thy
tongue of. . . [Come unto me] that thou mayest hearken
to my voice to-day, and mayest save me from all things
evil (4) and all slander (?). Ho ! thou whose form is of
his great and mysterious form, from whose be-
meaning 'to your side' is indicated by 21/12, vir-k a pe-k hr probably
referring to a phylactery or knot tied at a particular place.
Col. XI.
1. 1. / hse-t, apparently not / hp hse-t as in 1. 20. Cf. 12/21.
1. 2. hne (?), cf. srn 18/9, but with different det. One may perhaps
conjecture sm-t, ' favour (?) me,' here; it is hardly ujcoai, ' wash/ 'purify'
(of clothes, Bsciai, Rec. trav., vii. 27).
1. 3. Cf. 11. 16-17, and Pleyte, Chap. Suppl., PL 128, nhvi-k wl
mc ih-t nb dw (var. Ih-t nb bin dw) hpr vi cwjy 71 rmt ntr-w lh-w mt-iv.
1. 4. r bn may mean ' evil spell.'
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bull (?) of bulls, (29) son of Nut, open to me, I am
the Opener of earth, that came forth from Geb, hail !
[I am I, I,] I, E, E, E, [He, He, He,] (30) Ho, Ho, Ho ;
I am Anepo, Miri-po-re, Maat (?) Ib, Thi[bio, Ar]oui,
Ouoou, [Iaho.'] (31) Formula: blood of a smim-goose,
blood of a hoopoe, blood of a n[ightjar], ankh-amu plant,
\senepe plant], (32)' Great-of-Amen ' plant, qes-ankh stone,-
genuine lapis-lazuli, myrrh,' footprint-of-Isis 'plant, pound,
make into a ball, [you paint] your [eyes] with it; put (?)
a goat's-[tear] (33) in (?) a 'pleasure-wood' of ani or
ebony wood, [you bind it (?)] around (?) you [with a]
(34) strip of male-palm fibre in [an] elevated place
opposite the sun after putting [the ointment as above on]
your eyes ... (35) according to what is prescribed for it.
Col. XI.
1. A spell of giving favour: 'Come to me, O
thy beautiful name. O Thoth, hasten (bis); come to me.
(2) Let me see thy beautiful face here to-day
[I stand(?)] being in the form of an ape; and do thou
greet (?) me (3) with praise and adoration (?) with thy
tongue of. . . [Come unto me] that thou mayest hearken
to my voice to-day, and mayest save me from all things
evil (4) and all slander (?). Ho ! thou whose form is of
his great and mysterious form, from whose be-
meaning 'to your side' is indicated by 21/12, vir-k a pe-k hr probably
referring to a phylactery or knot tied at a particular place.
Col. XI.
1. 1. / hse-t, apparently not / hp hse-t as in 1. 20. Cf. 12/21.
1. 2. hne (?), cf. srn 18/9, but with different det. One may perhaps
conjecture sm-t, ' favour (?) me,' here; it is hardly ujcoai, ' wash/ 'purify'
(of clothes, Bsciai, Rec. trav., vii. 27).
1. 3. Cf. 11. 16-17, and Pleyte, Chap. Suppl., PL 128, nhvi-k wl
mc ih-t nb dw (var. Ih-t nb bin dw) hpr vi cwjy 71 rmt ntr-w lh-w mt-iv.
1. 4. r bn may mean ' evil spell.'
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