CHAPTER LXIILa.

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 7). ]
Vignette: The deceased drinking water from a running
stream, or the deceased kneeling by the side of a pool of water
and receiving water in a bowl, which he holds in his right hand,
from a vessel which the goddess of the sycamore tree (Hathor)
is emptying into it. In the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, op. cit.,
Bl. 23) the deceased is pouring out water from two vessels before the symbol of flame,
Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF DRINKING WATER AND OF NOT BEING BURNT (2) BY FIRE [IN THE UNDER-
Chap, Ixiii.a, 5] OF NOT BEING BURNT 209
WORLD. ‘The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :—
“Hail, Bull of Amentet! I am brought unto thee, “Tam the oar of Ra (3) wherewith he ferried over the “divine aged ones; let me neither be burnt up nor “destroyed by fire. I am Bet,' the first-born son of “ Osiris, who doth meet every god (4) within the temple “of his Eye in Annu. I am the divine Heir, the “exalted one (?), the Mighty One, the Resting One. I “have made my name to germinate, (5) I have delivered “it|, and thou shalt live through me day by day.”