CHAPTER XII

[From the Papyrus of Nu (Brit. Mus. No. 10,477, sheet 9).]
Vignette: This Chapter is without a vignette in both the Theban and Saite Recensions,
Text: (1) Tue CHAPTER OF GOING INTO AND OF COMING FORTH FROM [THE UNDERWORLD]. The Osiris Nu, triumphant, saith :—
“Hymns of praise to thee, O Ra! thou keeper (?) of “seeret (2) gates which are on the brow of the god
1 In the Saite Recension this Chapter is found twice, viz., as
Chapters XII. and CXX.; as there is no good reason why it should be Chapter CXX., it has been placed here.
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“Seb, by the side of the Balance of Ra, wherein he lifteth “up Right and Truth (Maat) (8) day by day. In very “truth I have burst through the earth,’ grant [thou] “unto me that I may go forward and arrive at the “state of old age.”