89. We find similar wishes on the Egyptian monuments, frequently at least since the Middle Empire. "Donnez-moi de l'eau courante a boire.... Mettez-moi la face au vent du nord sur le bord de l'eau et que sa fraicheur calme mon coeur" (Maspero, _Etudes egyptiennes_, I, 1881, p. 189). "Oh, si j'avais de l'eau courante a boire et si mon visage etait tourne vers le vent du nord" (Naville,_op. cit._, p. 174). On a funerary stele in the Brussels museum (Capart, _Guide_, 1905, p. 71) is inscribed, "Que les dieux accordent de boire l'eau des sources, de respirer les doux vents du nord."--The very material origin of this wish appears in the funeral texts, where the soul is shown crossing the desert, threatened with hunger and thirst, and obtaining refreshment by the aid of the gods (Maspero, _Etudes de mythol. et d'archeol. egypt._, 1883, I, pp. {239} 366 ff.).--On a tablet at Petilia (see _supra_, n. 22), the soul of the deceased is required to drink the fresh water ([Greek: psuchron hudor]) flowing from the lake of Memory in order to reign with the heroes. There is nothing to prevent our admitting with Foucart ("Myst. d'Eleusis," _Mem. Acad. des Inscr._, XXXV, 2, p. 67), that the Egyptian ideas may have permeated the Orphic worship of southern Italy after the fourth or third century, since they are found expressed a hundred years earlier at Carpentras (_infra_, n. 90). 90. [Greek: Doie soi ho Osiris to psuchron hudor], at Rome: Kaibel, _Inscr. gr._ XIV. 1488, 1705, 1782, 1842; cf. 658 and _CIL_, VI, 3, 20616.--[Greek: Soi de Oseiridos hagnon hudor Eisis charisaito], _Rev. archeol._, 1887, p. 199, cf. 201.--[Greek: Psuchei dipsosei psuchron hudor metados], _CIG_, 6267 = Kaibel, 1890. It is particularly interesting to note that almost the same wish appears on the Aramaic stele of Carpentras (_C. I. Sem._, II, 141), which dates back to the fourth or fifth century B. C.: "Blessed be thou, take water from in front of Osiris."--A passage in the book of Enoch manifestly inspired by Egyptian conceptions, mentions the "spring of water," the "spring of life," in the realm of the dead (Enoch, xxii. 2, 9. Cf. Martin, _Le livre d'Henoch_, 1906, p. 58, n. 1, and Bousset, _Relig. des Judentums_, 1903, p 271). From Judaism the expression has passed into Christianity. Cf. Rev. vii. 17; xxi. 6.