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COL. XXV
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(n) no man has mounted (?); you set it upright, you
place the lamp (?) (12) on it; you put genuine oil in it, or
Oasis oil, (13) and you set two new bricks under you;
you place the boy between (14) your feet; you recite
the charms aforesaid down into the head of the boy,
(15) your hand being over his eyes; you offer myrrh
upon a willow leaf (16) before the lamp. You do it in
a dark place, the door of it (17) opening to the East or
the South, and no cellar being underneath it. (18) You
do not allow the light to come into the place aforesaid;
you purify the said place beforehand. (19) You push the
boy's back to the opening of the niche. When you have
finished, you recite a charm, (20) bringing your hand
over his eyes. A boy who has not yet gone with a
woman, (21) is he] whom you make come before you (?) ;
you question him, saying, 'What do you see?' (22)
then he tells you about everything that you ask him.
(23) A method to put the heart of a woman after a man ;
done in one moment (?), and it comes to pass instantly.
You take (24) a swallow (?) alive, together with a
hoopoe, (both) alive. Ointment made for them: (25)
blood of a male ass, blood of the tick (?) of a black cow ;
you anoint (26) their heads with lotus ointment; you utter
a cry before the sun in his moment of rising ; (27) you cut
off the heads of the two ; you take the heart out of the
right ribs (28) of both of them ; you anoint it with the
ass's blood and the blood of the tick (?) of a black cow, (29)
1. 21. Read \_p] nt e^r-k, which is required by the space and the meaning.
ne-t-t-f\ either ^must refer to the lamp, or to the action in general,
or else it is a slip for -k.
1. 23. w^-twne-t'. the preparation of the materials would take several
days, but they could be kept ready for immediate use.
1. 24. Bhk€ seems a likely word, but there is no authority for reading
the third sign in the cipher word as n.
e-w *nh does not mean that several hoopoes were required. There
were only two birds: see 1. 27.
155
(n) no man has mounted (?); you set it upright, you
place the lamp (?) (12) on it; you put genuine oil in it, or
Oasis oil, (13) and you set two new bricks under you;
you place the boy between (14) your feet; you recite
the charms aforesaid down into the head of the boy,
(15) your hand being over his eyes; you offer myrrh
upon a willow leaf (16) before the lamp. You do it in
a dark place, the door of it (17) opening to the East or
the South, and no cellar being underneath it. (18) You
do not allow the light to come into the place aforesaid;
you purify the said place beforehand. (19) You push the
boy's back to the opening of the niche. When you have
finished, you recite a charm, (20) bringing your hand
over his eyes. A boy who has not yet gone with a
woman, (21) is he] whom you make come before you (?) ;
you question him, saying, 'What do you see?' (22)
then he tells you about everything that you ask him.
(23) A method to put the heart of a woman after a man ;
done in one moment (?), and it comes to pass instantly.
You take (24) a swallow (?) alive, together with a
hoopoe, (both) alive. Ointment made for them: (25)
blood of a male ass, blood of the tick (?) of a black cow ;
you anoint (26) their heads with lotus ointment; you utter
a cry before the sun in his moment of rising ; (27) you cut
off the heads of the two ; you take the heart out of the
right ribs (28) of both of them ; you anoint it with the
ass's blood and the blood of the tick (?) of a black cow, (29)
1. 21. Read \_p] nt e^r-k, which is required by the space and the meaning.
ne-t-t-f\ either ^must refer to the lamp, or to the action in general,
or else it is a slip for -k.
1. 23. w^-twne-t'. the preparation of the materials would take several
days, but they could be kept ready for immediate use.
1. 24. Bhk€ seems a likely word, but there is no authority for reading
the third sign in the cipher word as n.
e-w *nh does not mean that several hoopoes were required. There
were only two birds: see 1. 27.