The Egyptian Book of the dead

Future life; Incantations, Egyptian

Of this chapter we have unfortunately but one copy in _Fa_, of the Musée
Borély. This is defective both at the beginning and at the end, and the
text is inaccurate. The later copies are so inaccurate that it is
impossible to reconstitute the text. It is precisely on those points
where grammatical accuracy is required for fixing a definite sense that
the manuscripts are hopelessly defective. The preceding translation is
_verbally_ correct, I trust, but I do not pretend that it is
intelligible. It stops where the papyrus _Fa_ stops.

1. _Restored._ The reduplication in ⁂ here gives the verb this
sense.

2. It is not only in Egyptian that verbs of sight are applied to other
perceptions. Aeschylus says κτύπον δέδορκα in _Sept. c. Th._ 104, and
the Hebrew writers furnish similar examples.

3. _At the mouth of Osiris and the heart of Sutu._ To justify this
translation the same preposition ought to govern _mouth_ and _heart_.
But I do not know any copy in which this occurs. The Turin reading is
simply absurd.




                              CHAPTER XCI.

     _Chapter whereby the Soul is secured from imprisonment in the
                             Netherworld._


Oh thou who art exalted and worshipped, all powerful, almighty one, who
grantest thy terrors to the gods, who displayest thyself upon thy throne
of grandeur,(1.) let the way be made for my Soul, my Chu and my Shade.
Let me be thoroughly equipped.

I am a powerful Soul; let the way be made for me to the place where Rā
is and Hathor.

_If this Chapter is known, he taketh the form of a fully equipped Chu in
the Netherworld, and does not suffer imprisonment at any door in the
Amenta, either in coming in or going out._

                                 NOTE.

1. There is no safe text here, ‘grandeur’ is only meant to indicate the
existence of ⁂ in the original. But there certainly ought to be
something different from what any of the MSS. supply.

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PLATE XXIII.

                           BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus, Leyden,
  No. II.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus of Nebseni, British
  Museum, No. 9900.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVII.
  MARIETTE, “DENDERAH.”
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVII.   CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXIX.
  =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XC.
  =Papyrus, Musée Borély, Marseilles.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XC.
  =LEPSIUS, TODTENBUCH.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 89.=
]

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PLATE XXIV.

                           BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus, British Museum, 9949.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus, Boulaq, 21.=
]

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Religion

The Egyptian Book of the dead

Future life; Incantations, Egyptian

Of this chapter we have unfortunately but one copy in _Fa_, of the Musée
Borély. This is defective both at the beginning and at the end, and the
text is inaccurate. The later copies are so inaccurate that it is
impossible to reconstitute the text. It is precisely on those points
where grammatical accuracy is required for fixing a definite sense that
the manuscripts are hopelessly defective. The preceding translation is
_verbally_ correct, I trust, but I do not pretend that it is
intelligible. It stops where the papyrus _Fa_ stops.

1. _Restored._ The reduplication in ⁂ here gives the verb this
sense.

2. It is not only in Egyptian that verbs of sight are applied to other
perceptions. Aeschylus says κτύπον δέδορκα in _Sept. c. Th._ 104, and
the Hebrew writers furnish similar examples.

3. _At the mouth of Osiris and the heart of Sutu._ To justify this
translation the same preposition ought to govern _mouth_ and _heart_.
But I do not know any copy in which this occurs. The Turin reading is
simply absurd.




                              CHAPTER XCI.

     _Chapter whereby the Soul is secured from imprisonment in the
                             Netherworld._


Oh thou who art exalted and worshipped, all powerful, almighty one, who
grantest thy terrors to the gods, who displayest thyself upon thy throne
of grandeur,(1.) let the way be made for my Soul, my Chu and my Shade.
Let me be thoroughly equipped.

I am a powerful Soul; let the way be made for me to the place where Rā
is and Hathor.

_If this Chapter is known, he taketh the form of a fully equipped Chu in
the Netherworld, and does not suffer imprisonment at any door in the
Amenta, either in coming in or going out._

                                 NOTE.

1. There is no safe text here, ‘grandeur’ is only meant to indicate the
existence of ⁂ in the original. But there certainly ought to be
something different from what any of the MSS. supply.

                  ------------------------------------

------------------------------------------------------------------------

PLATE XXIII.

                           BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus, Leyden,
  No. II.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus of Nebseni, British
  Museum, No. 9900.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVII.
  MARIETTE, “DENDERAH.”
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXVII.   CHAPTER LXXXVIII.
  =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER LXXXIX.
  =Papyrus of Ani, British Museum.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XC.
  =Papyrus, Musée Borély, Marseilles.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XC.
  =LEPSIUS, TODTENBUCH.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus du Louvre, III, 89.=
]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

PLATE XXIV.

                           BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus, British Museum, 9949.=
]

[Illustration:

  CHAPTER XCII.
  =Papyrus, Boulaq, 21.=
]

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

The Egyptian Book of the dead

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