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100 EGYPTIAN FUNEREAL INSCRIPTIONS
1. Presiding over the Memphitic nome Mes justified in peace.
2. He who joumeyeth through Maneen,
3. Who causeth him to be regenerate, who day by day goeth
forth:
4. In his day thou hast departed in peace.
Passing over the first column of the third com-
partment, which merely contains, with tiresome
tautology, a repetition of titles and offices, we
proceed to the remaining fragments, in which we
have, according to the opinion of Mr. Birch, what
seems to be a quotation or paraphrastic transcription
from the " Book of the Dead." It is difficult to
collect the sense of these disjointed passages, from
the absence of the context, each column being a
continuation of a missing portion :—
Line 2 :
Neteriu nev m chu user t
Dii omnes cum potestate et facilitate.
Line 3 :
Sem .... m n s
qui ducit (et imago est) donio (?)
Line 4 :
Ta m aa sent
(e) Terra, in magno terrore.
All the Gods, with power and knowledge.
Who leadeth forth .... in the house.
From the land in great terror.
In the remaining fourth compartment there is
probably an error in the hieroglyphic symbol suc-
ceeding the name of Ptah, and which instead of
being k should be nev, so that the designation of the
god would be, " Lord of Truth." The centre in-
scription, though partly effaced, may be read as
follows:—
1. Presiding over the Memphitic nome Mes justified in peace.
2. He who joumeyeth through Maneen,
3. Who causeth him to be regenerate, who day by day goeth
forth:
4. In his day thou hast departed in peace.
Passing over the first column of the third com-
partment, which merely contains, with tiresome
tautology, a repetition of titles and offices, we
proceed to the remaining fragments, in which we
have, according to the opinion of Mr. Birch, what
seems to be a quotation or paraphrastic transcription
from the " Book of the Dead." It is difficult to
collect the sense of these disjointed passages, from
the absence of the context, each column being a
continuation of a missing portion :—
Line 2 :
Neteriu nev m chu user t
Dii omnes cum potestate et facilitate.
Line 3 :
Sem .... m n s
qui ducit (et imago est) donio (?)
Line 4 :
Ta m aa sent
(e) Terra, in magno terrore.
All the Gods, with power and knowledge.
Who leadeth forth .... in the house.
From the land in great terror.
In the remaining fourth compartment there is
probably an error in the hieroglyphic symbol suc-
ceeding the name of Ptah, and which instead of
being k should be nev, so that the designation of the
god would be, " Lord of Truth." The centre in-
scription, though partly effaced, may be read as
follows:—