CHAPTER LYI.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 12).]
Vignette : The deceased holding in his hand a sail, symbolic of air.
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF SNUFFING THE AIR AMONG THE WATERS IN THE UNDERWORLD. The over- seer of the house (2) of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :-—
“Hail, thou god Tem, grant thou unto me the sweet “breath which dwelleth in thy nostrils. I embrace “that great throne (3) which is in the city of Hermo- “polis, and I keep watch over the Egg of Kenken-ur “(i.c., Great Cackler) ; I germinate as it germinateth ; “ (4) T live as it liveth ; and[my] breath is [its] breath.”
! A Papyrus at Leyden (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. IL. p. 125) adds: ‘*My mouth is open, and I see with my two eyes.”
200 . OF SNUFFING THE AIR (Chap. lvii. x