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(17) the living uraeus, thou art the sun-boat, the lake of
Ua-*peke; grant to me praise, love, and lordship before
(18) every womb, every woman. Love (?) is my true
name.' [Another (?)] invocation of it again : ' I am Shu,
Klakinok, I am Iarn, (19) I am Gamren, I am Se . . . .
Paer(?)ipaf, Iupen, Dynhs, Gamrou, water of On, I am
(20) Shu, Shabu, Sha . . . . , Shabaho, Lahy-lahs, Lahei,
the great god who is in the East (21) Labrathaa, I am
that gryphon which is in Abydos.'
[Another] form of them (?) again (?) to give favour to
a man before a woman and vice versa, before . . . . ' Thou
art Thoueris, the great of sorcery, [cat (?)] of Ethiopia,
daughter of Re, lady of the uraeus ; thou art Sochmet,
the great, lady of Ast, (23) who hast seized every impious
person .... [eye-ball (?)] of the sun in the nzat, born of the
moon at the midmonth at night, thou art Kam (?)
(24) mighty, abyss, thou art Kam (?).... great one (fem.)
who art in the House of the obelisk in On ; thou art the
golden mirror, [thou art ?] (25) the sektet-boat, the sun-
boat of Re Lanza, the youth, the son of the Greek
woman, the Amazon (?) in the . . . (26) of dum-palm
fruit (?), these .... of Bywekem ; the favour and love
which the sun, thy father, hath given to thee, send [them]
(27) to me down into this oil, before the heart, and eyes
of (?) every woman before whom I come in.' [Invocation]
to a Kesh . . . -fish (28) of nine digits and black; [you put
it] in an ointment of roses ; you drown it therein; you
1. 25. skte-t. It is interesting to find this clear spelling, not smkt-t,
which seems to be that of the Pyramid Texts.
wycnyne-t, an extraordinary spelling for oveemm, 'Greek.'
pyt-t. pdty in Eg. seems to be a foreign soldier or mercenary. This
is evidently a feminine derivative.
1. 26. gwg — kwk in Kufi, p. xx; probably the dum-nut, as in Kufi
it is evidently the fruit of a tree, so not dos-d : ■sot's, carthamus.
1. 28. shin n wrt, \xvpov poSivov of Pap. Bibl. Nat. 1. 759. That it was
of a consistency to choke a fish is seen by its use as a lamp-oil in 6/9.
(17) the living uraeus, thou art the sun-boat, the lake of
Ua-*peke; grant to me praise, love, and lordship before
(18) every womb, every woman. Love (?) is my true
name.' [Another (?)] invocation of it again : ' I am Shu,
Klakinok, I am Iarn, (19) I am Gamren, I am Se . . . .
Paer(?)ipaf, Iupen, Dynhs, Gamrou, water of On, I am
(20) Shu, Shabu, Sha . . . . , Shabaho, Lahy-lahs, Lahei,
the great god who is in the East (21) Labrathaa, I am
that gryphon which is in Abydos.'
[Another] form of them (?) again (?) to give favour to
a man before a woman and vice versa, before . . . . ' Thou
art Thoueris, the great of sorcery, [cat (?)] of Ethiopia,
daughter of Re, lady of the uraeus ; thou art Sochmet,
the great, lady of Ast, (23) who hast seized every impious
person .... [eye-ball (?)] of the sun in the nzat, born of the
moon at the midmonth at night, thou art Kam (?)
(24) mighty, abyss, thou art Kam (?).... great one (fem.)
who art in the House of the obelisk in On ; thou art the
golden mirror, [thou art ?] (25) the sektet-boat, the sun-
boat of Re Lanza, the youth, the son of the Greek
woman, the Amazon (?) in the . . . (26) of dum-palm
fruit (?), these .... of Bywekem ; the favour and love
which the sun, thy father, hath given to thee, send [them]
(27) to me down into this oil, before the heart, and eyes
of (?) every woman before whom I come in.' [Invocation]
to a Kesh . . . -fish (28) of nine digits and black; [you put
it] in an ointment of roses ; you drown it therein; you
1. 25. skte-t. It is interesting to find this clear spelling, not smkt-t,
which seems to be that of the Pyramid Texts.
wycnyne-t, an extraordinary spelling for oveemm, 'Greek.'
pyt-t. pdty in Eg. seems to be a foreign soldier or mercenary. This
is evidently a feminine derivative.
1. 26. gwg — kwk in Kufi, p. xx; probably the dum-nut, as in Kufi
it is evidently the fruit of a tree, so not dos-d : ■sot's, carthamus.
1. 28. shin n wrt, \xvpov poSivov of Pap. Bibl. Nat. 1. 759. That it was
of a consistency to choke a fish is seen by its use as a lamp-oil in 6/9.