CHAPTER LI.

{From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 11). ]
Vignette : This Chapter is without a vignette in the Theban
Recension; in the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. cit., Bl. 21) the
deceased is seated on a chair and his left hand is stretched out over a table.
1 Or, ‘* Let me not be compelled to eat it [in the absence of] the sepulchral cakes and provisions which shall be offered unto me.”
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Text: (1) Tor CHAPTER OF NOT EATING FILTH IN THE UNDERWORLD. ‘The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :—
“That which is an abomination unto me, that which “ig an abomination unto me, let me not eat. That ‘which is an abomination unto me, (2) that which is “an abomination unto me is filth ; let me not eat it [in “the place of| the sepulchral cakes [which are offered “unto| the Kas. Let it not light upon my body; let ‘““me not be obliged to take it into my hands ; and let “me not be obliged to (3) walk thereon in my sandals. “What, now, wilt thou live upon in the presence of “the gods? [Let food] come unto me from the place ‘whither thou wilt bring food (?), and let me live upon “the seven loaves of bread (4) which shall be brought as ‘food before Horus, and upon the bread which is ‘“Dbrought before Thoth. The gods shall say unto me: «What manner of food wouldst thou have given unto ‘thee?’ [And I reply:] Let me eat my food under “the sycamore tree (5) of my lady, the goddess Hathor, ‘‘and let my times be among the divine beings who “have alighted thereon. Let me have the power to “order my own fields in Tattu (Mendes) (6) and my “own growing crops in Annu (Heliopolis). Let me “live upon bread made of white barley, and let my “beer be [made] from red grain, and may the persons “of (7) my father and mother be given unto me as ‘“ouardians of my door and for the ordering of my “territory. Let me be sound and strong, let me have
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“a large room, and let me be able to sit wheresoever
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