CHAPTER LXIL.

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9900, sheet 4). ]
Vignette : The deceased scooping up running water out of a stream into his mouth with both hands.
Text: (1) THe CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER IN THE UNDERWORLD. (2) The scribe Nebseni........ saith -— (3)
“May be opened [to me] the mighty flood by Osiris, ‘and may the abyss of water be opened [to me] by “Tehuti-Hapi, (4) the lord of the horizon, in my name “of ‘Opener.’ May there be granted [to me] mastery “over the water-courses as over the members (5) of Set. “T go forth into heaven. I am the Lion-god Ra. I “am the Bull. (6) [I] have eaten the thigh, and I “have divided the carcase. I have gone round about “among the islands (or lakes) of Sekhet-(7)Aaru.' “Indefinite time, without beginning and without end, “hath been given to me; I inherit eternity, and ever- “Jastingness hath been bestowed upon me.”
1 T.e., a portion of the Elysian Fields (see Chapter CX.).
208 OF DRINKING WATER [Chap. Ixiii.a.
The last three Chapters, with a single vignette, are grouped in one in the Papyrus of Nefer-uben-f (see Naville, op. cit., Bd. I. Bl. 72); but the order of them, as there given is 61, 60, 62. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. cit., B]. 23) the vignette of each is the same, 7.e., the deceased holding a sail in his left hand.