This chapter is often found not only in papyri but upon coffins, in accordance with the rubric at the end. The earliest copy is on the coffin of Queen Mentuhotep. A very fine copy is on the alabaster sarcophagus of Seti I, and our museums are rich in funereal monuments inscribed with this ancient text. A very similar text is found at the end of chapter 99. 1. _Ammehit_ is the name given in chapter 149 to the sixth abode in Amenta, but here and in other places it is simply one of the names of the Netherworld. In the inscriptions, for instance, of the tomb of Queen Tita,[86] “passing through the two folding doors of the Ammehit” is in parallelism with “going in and out of the divine Netherworld.” 2. _Lords of Rule._ This is the reading in most documents, but there are others which have an equal claim to authority. The invocation is sometimes made to the ⁂⁂ “those who are possessed of a _ka_,” that is the “spirits made perfect,” those who have already passed through the requisite trials, besides the gods who have never passed through the stage of mortality, all of whom are possessed of a _ka_. The invocation, according to another reading, which is that of chapter 99, is addressed to the ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “those who are beautiful or perfect of _ka_.” Here the papyri add _lords of rule_, and the invocation, whatever the reading may be, is always addressed to those who have in their power the laws which regulate the universe. 3. _Whose secular period is Eternity._ ⁂⁂⁂ _ḥentȧ_ is the period of 120 years (see _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, XIV, 264) which was their αἰών, _aevum_, corresponding in idea, not in actual time, to our century. The secular period of the gods is eternity. 4. _The Crocodile._ Are we to understand this of the crocodile-headed monster pictured in the representations of the Psychostasia? These pictures are not known to us from as early a date as the chapter itself, but they may have existed. Perhaps, however, this passage may have suggested them. 5. _Bread._ The Egyptian word ⁂ _ta_, like its homonym ⁂, implies something _pierced_ or _perforated_. The sacrificial cake חַלָּה in Leviticus viii, 26 has the same meaning and, like חַלִיל _a pipe_, is connected with חָלָל, _perforavit_, _confodit_, _aperuit_, _profanavit_. See _Proc. Soc. Bibl. Arch._, 1893, p. 386. ⁂ _ta_, a door or gate, and some other homonyms evidently come under the same conception; cf. _porta_ and πείρω. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XXI. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXVII. =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXVIII. =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXVIII. LEPSIUS, “Todt.” ] [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXVIII. =Leiden Papyrus, T. 16.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXVIII. LEPSIUS, “Todt.” ] [Illustration: CHAPTER LXXIX. =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 89.= ] [Illustration: