Anubis has given him his shroud; he has done all that pleased him; the high-priest has prepared his ribbon; for he is the provider (?) of the great god; thou goest and washest thyself in the lake of Perfection, thou makest offerings in the house of the gods of the sky, and thou propitiatest the lord of Heliopolis; thou receivest the water of Rā in ewers, and milk in large vases. O thou raised one, thou makest offerings on the altar, and thou washest thy feet upon the stone of ..., the banks of the divine lake; thou comest forth and thou seest Rā upon the four pillars which are the arms of the sky; on the head of Anmutef, and on the arms of Apuat who opens for thee the path; thou seest the horizon where are all the sacred things which thou desirest. O thou who are called aloud (_bis_), eighth verse. All the good things have been spread out for thee, before Rā. Thou hast a beginning and thou hast an end as Horus and Thoth have ordered for thee. They call upon _N._, they see how he is glorious, they give him to come forth like a god to meet the Powers of Heliopolis. Thou journeyest on the great path as thy mummy has received the sacred things from thy father; thy hands are wrapped in linen every day; the beginning of the journey of the god is at the gate of the Great Dwelling, O thou who art called aloud (_bis_), ninth verse. _N._ Breatheth the air for his nose and for his nostrils, he receiveth a thousand geese and sixty baskets of all things good and pure; thy enemies have been struck down; they are no more. NOTES. This Chapter is taken from papyrus London 9900 _Aa_. It has no vignette, the translation here given is that which I published in 1873 (_Zeitschrift_, 1873, pp. 25 and 81), with a few changes. 1. Lacunæ. 2. Perhaps the ⁂⁂ which M. Loret has identified as being the celery (_Recueil_, Vol. XVI, p. 4). 3. Here begins a hymn, the first words of which are ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ “O thou who art called aloud,” repeated twice. These words have become the name of the hymn, as we say the _Magnificat_ or the _Te Deum_. The hymn is divided into nine fragments or verses, ⁂⁂ (Renouf, _Life Work_, Vol. II, p. 390). 4. Renouf’s translation. See Chapter 18, § 10. Rather than _before_, I should translate, _through the action of_. 5. “Electron” is Lepsius’s translation. Renouf, who translates “copper,” has discussed the point in a letter to Lepsius (_Life Work_, Vol. II, p. 2). 6. I believe this means made of black metal, probably silver, blackened by some chemical process. 7. Papyrus Ebers ⁂⁂ “foramen ani, rectum.” 8. The text has here ⁂ an evident blunder. We should read here the phallus. 9. Brugsch, _Dict. Suppl._, p. 1021, translates ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂ _aati_, “Bettenmacher.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE LIX. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER CLXXIII, _A. a._] ------------------------------------------------------------------------