The pictures in the temple of Luxor (_Denkm._, III, 74 and 75) are well known which represent the birth of Amenophis III. The infant prince in each of these pictures is accompanied by his _ka_, his exact image. The _ka_ is nursed and suckled by the same goddesses. But perhaps the best commentary on our text is to be found in the picture recently published by the French Mission Archéologique (_Temple de Luxor_, fig. 203), in which both the royal infant and his _ka_ are being fashioned by the hand of Chnum, upon his potter’s wheel. 3. _Mortuary gifts_ ⁂⁂⁂, meals offered to the departed. The meaning of the compound group is plain enough from the determinatives, and such frequent forms as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “consisting of bread and beer,” but the origin of it is not so clear. The usual meaning of ⁂⁂ like that of the Coptic ϧⲣⲱⲟⲩ is _voice_, but in the present group it stands for ⁂⁂⁂ corresponding to ϧⲣⲉ, plur. ϧⲣⲏⲟⲩⲓ, τροφὴ, βρώματα, ἐδέσματα,, and ⁂ is to be understood as in the very common formula ⁂⁂⁂⁂. The reading ⁂⁂⁂⁂ which is sometimes found in late texts is faulty and leads to an erroneous interpretation. ⁂ is a mistake either for ⁂ or for ⁂, the phonetic of ⁂. In such passages of the Pyramid texts as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ (Unas 36) ⁂ is a demonstrative not a negative particle, “Here is the mortuary meal presented for thee, and _here_ are the two Eyes, the White and the Black, of Horus.” 4. All the early MSS. except _Pd_ omit this last passage. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CVI. _Chapter whereby a largess is presented at Hat-ka-Ptah._(1.) Oh thou god of nutriment, oh great one who presidest over the mansions on high; [to whom bread cometh from Annu] ye who give bread to Ptah [from Annu], give me bread and beer: let me be made pure by the sacrificial joint, together with the white bread.(2.) Oh thou ship of the Garden of Aarru, let me be conveyed to that bread of thy canal; as my father, the Great one, who advanceth in the Divine ship [because I know thee]. NOTES. This is one of the chapters found on the sarcophagus of Horhotep. It is also inscribed on a statue, now in the Berlin Museum, belonging to the early part of the XVIIIth dynasty (_Denkm._, III, 25 h and k). These authorities do not give the title found in the papyri. The allusions to Annu are confined to the earliest text, which somewhat differs from the later authorities, and finishes sooner than they do. _Cf._ also _Teta_, l. 331. 1. _Hat-ka-Ptah_ is the name of Memphis, but as in so many other places it is not the earthly city which is meant. M. Naville has pointed out that the words “in the Netherworld” are added in the papyrus of Nebseni.