CHAPTER XI!

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 21).]
Vignette : This Chapter is without a vignette in both the Theban and Saite Recensions,
Text: (1) Tue Cuaprer or [A MAN] COMING FORTH AGAINST HIS ENEMIES IN THE UNDERWORLD. The overseer of the house of the overseer of the seal, Nu, triumphant, saith :— (2)
“O thou god who eatest thine arm,’ I have departed “from thy road. I am Ra, and I have come forth
1 In the Saite Recension this Chapter is found twice, viz., as Chapters XI. and XLIX.; as there is no good reason why it should be Chapter XLIX., it has been placed here.
2 This Chapter is addressed either to Apep, or to one of his fiends,
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“from the horizon against my enemies, and he hath “oranted to me that they shall not escape (3) from me. ‘T have made an offering, and my hand is like that of “the lord of the Urereé crown. I have lifted up my “feet even as the uraei goddesses rise up.* My over- ‘throw shall not be accomplished, (4) and as for mine “enemy he hath been given over into my power and he “shall not be delivered from me. I shall stand up like “ Horus, and [ shall sit down like Ptah, and I shall be “mighty like Thoth, (5) and I shall be strong like “Tem. I shall, therefore, walk with my legs, I shall “speak with my mouth, I shall go round about in “quest of mine enemy, and [as] he hath been delivered “over to me he shall not escape from me.”