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COL. XIII
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take it [out], (29) you hang it up by [its] head [. . . clays (?)] :
when you have finished you put it on a glass vessel; you
[add] a little water of sisymbrium (30) with a little
amulet (?)-of-Isis and pounded; you recite this to
it seven times for seven days opposite the rising of the
sun. You anoint your head with [it] (31) in the hour
when you lie with [any(?)] woman. [You] embalm the
fish with myrrh and natron ; you bury it in your chamber
or in a hidden place.
Col. XIII.
(1) The mode of separating a man from a woman and
a woman from her husband. (2) 'Woe! {bis), flame!
(bis) ; Geb assumed his form of a bull, coivit [cum
filia ?] matris suae Tefnet, again .... (3) because (?) the
heart of his father cursed (?) his face ; the fury of him
whose soul is as flame, while his body is as a pillar (?),
so that(?) he (4) fill the earth with flame
and the mountains shoot with tongues (?) :—the fury
of every god and every goddess Ankh-uer, Lalat (?),
(5) Bareshak, Belkesh, be cast upon (?) N. the
son of N. [and (?)] N. the daughter of N., (6) send the
fire towards his heart and the flame in his place of
the suffix
employing the obsolete >b for heart, miv for t\ or Q (,
with the noun ~h.br, the past stm-f, &c. #
wy sp-sn: cf. Louvre dem. Mag. iii. 16.
Geb is Kpovos, the planet Kpovos being named ' Horus the Bull,' and
Nut, daughter of Tefnut, is the heavenly cow in the Destruction des
Hommes, &c. The restoration before ' his mother' is, however, very
uncertain. Cf. the Greek myth of Kpovos, and Plutarch, de Iside et Or.,
cap. 12, where 'Pea is Nut.
1. 3. he-f ' his body,' must be for he-t-f, but this spelling occurs
elsewhere in the papyrus. Cf. 21/22.
in might represent the city of On, but the determinative is apparently
a stone.
1. 5. hwy a (?) mn, ' is cast upon (?) N.'
There are traces of writing covering i-| inches at the end of this
line, perhaps erased by the original scribe, and wholly illegible now.
93
take it [out], (29) you hang it up by [its] head [. . . clays (?)] :
when you have finished you put it on a glass vessel; you
[add] a little water of sisymbrium (30) with a little
amulet (?)-of-Isis and pounded; you recite this to
it seven times for seven days opposite the rising of the
sun. You anoint your head with [it] (31) in the hour
when you lie with [any(?)] woman. [You] embalm the
fish with myrrh and natron ; you bury it in your chamber
or in a hidden place.
Col. XIII.
(1) The mode of separating a man from a woman and
a woman from her husband. (2) 'Woe! {bis), flame!
(bis) ; Geb assumed his form of a bull, coivit [cum
filia ?] matris suae Tefnet, again .... (3) because (?) the
heart of his father cursed (?) his face ; the fury of him
whose soul is as flame, while his body is as a pillar (?),
so that(?) he (4) fill the earth with flame
and the mountains shoot with tongues (?) :—the fury
of every god and every goddess Ankh-uer, Lalat (?),
(5) Bareshak, Belkesh, be cast upon (?) N. the
son of N. [and (?)] N. the daughter of N., (6) send the
fire towards his heart and the flame in his place of
the suffix
employing the obsolete >b for heart, miv for t\ or Q (,
with the noun ~h.br, the past stm-f, &c. #
wy sp-sn: cf. Louvre dem. Mag. iii. 16.
Geb is Kpovos, the planet Kpovos being named ' Horus the Bull,' and
Nut, daughter of Tefnut, is the heavenly cow in the Destruction des
Hommes, &c. The restoration before ' his mother' is, however, very
uncertain. Cf. the Greek myth of Kpovos, and Plutarch, de Iside et Or.,
cap. 12, where 'Pea is Nut.
1. 3. he-f ' his body,' must be for he-t-f, but this spelling occurs
elsewhere in the papyrus. Cf. 21/22.
in might represent the city of On, but the determinative is apparently
a stone.
1. 5. hwy a (?) mn, ' is cast upon (?) N.'
There are traces of writing covering i-| inches at the end of this
line, perhaps erased by the original scribe, and wholly illegible now.