3. _Coming forth triumphantly._ This is the reading of the oldest authority (Nebseni), but the reading which has prevailed, not only here, but in Chapter 147, is “coming forth from the Crown,” ⁂⁂⁂. 4. _That I may firmly secure my suit at Abydos._ The scholion on Chapter 17, referred to in note 1, states that the “place of Maāt is at Abydos.” It is, of course, the mystical, not the geographical, Abydos which is meant, and the _suit_ ⁂⁂ (_res_) which has to be settled is the final judgment of the deceased. 5. The throne of Osiris in pictures of the Psychostasia (_see_ Vignettes to Chapter 125) rests upon water, out of which there springs a lotus flower; and upon this flower stand the four children of Horus. In a passage of chapter 147, which is an adaptation of the present chapter, the deceased says ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _La_, “I am he whose stream is secret.” And a Pyramid Text (_Merenrā_, 188, 193) after mention of the Great Valley ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ and of the investiture (⁂) proceeds, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “thy water, thy fresh current, is a great inundation proceeding from thee.” Here the deceased is identified with the Nile and its inundation, as in Chapter 64 of the Book of the Dead. 6. The chapter ends here. The passage which follows in the translation is taken from the Paris papyrus _Pe_. 7. _Patron_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, a word supposed by some scholars to signify uncle. It occurs on funereal monuments among the designations of persons connected with the deceased, such as brother, sister, nurse. A man may have several bearing the designation, and they are not necessarily children of the same parents (_see e.g._, Mariette, _Cat. d’Abydos_, p. 110, where a man has five _chenemesu_, who cannot all be brothers either of his father or his mother). The word occurs repeatedly in the Prisse papyrus. I am inclined to think it means the legal guardian of a minor. ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CXVIII. _Chapter whereby one arriveth at Restau._ I am he who is born in Restau. Glory is given to me by those who are in their mummied forms in Pu, at the sanctuary of Osiris, whom the guards(1.) receive at Restau when they conduct Osiris through the demesnes of Osiris. NOTE. 1. _Guards_, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ȧaku_, the same personages as those mentioned in Chapter 28, note 2, and they seem to me to be identical with the “wardens of the passages,” Chapter 17, “attendant upon Osiris.” There is an imperfect tablet of the 12th dynasty at Hamamāt (_Denkm._, II, 138, c) in which thirty ⁂⁂⁂ are mentioned along with the soldiers and other persons belonging to the expedition. The Pyramid Texts have the word ⁂⁂ but apparently with a determinative of salutation, ⁂. (_Pepi_ I, 160, _cf._ line 82.) ------------------------------------ CHAPTER CXIX. _Chapter whereby one entereth or goeth forth from Restau._