Nicholson, Charles: Aegyptiaca (London, 1891)

36 catalogue of egyptian antiquities.

make offering to you of a straight rule ; I snap in
pieces for your wickedness." The forty-two repu-
diations of different sins are then recited in different
forms, and at the end of the chapter (line 66) the
Rubric for its proper performance, and the benefits
to be derived therefrom, are given in the following
terms :—

" To be recited by a priest stoled in gorgeous
robes and white slippers, and his head anointed with
oil of Anta. His offerings are to be bread and wine,
with meat offering, and fowl, and frankincense, with
flowers of all sorts. Afterwards you are to arrange
the funereal procession according to ordinance in a
piece of ground purified with (oil of) schent. It is to
be poured upon a field on which no horse has trodden.

If this book be performed over him (viz., the
deceased), he will be favoured with children to his
children. He will come to no misfortune, he will be
a favourite of the king and his brethren, and there
will be given him cakes and puddings, milk, and
plenty of flesh upon the altars of the great god ; he
will never have to receive a dole in any abode of
glory in the West; he will be towed (viz., in his
boat), with kings of Upper and kings of Lower
Egypt; he will be a servant of Osiris in the gar-
ment of Highteousness."

95. Box made of Five Planks of a kind of fir,
|- inch thick.—On each side is painted one of the
figures of the four gods of Amenti, each with his
legend in a single line of hieroglyphics before him.

Each holds the feather (see No. 27), and over
each is the heaven with the stars supported by the