CHAPTER XIIL’

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9900, sheet 12). ]
Vignette : This Chapter is without a vignette in both the Theban and Saite Recensions.
Text: [Tux CHAPTER OF ENTERING INTO AND OF coMING ForTH FROM AMENTET].
[Osiris, the scribe Nebseni, victorious, saith ;:—]
eae MOrisiggic yet esr. ae ee porn, like, the “Hawk and I come forth like the Bennw bird, the “morning star (?) of Ra. May a path be made for me “whereby I may enter in peace into the beautiful « Amentet; and may I be by the Lake of Horus; {and “may I lead the greyhounds of Horus]; and maya path
1 T.e., the Earth-god, in whose domain the body of the deceased was laid after death.
2 The allusion is to the freedom to come and to go in the under- world which the deceased enjoys through the religious texts which he knows.
3 In the Saite Recension this Chapter is found twice, viz., as
Shapters XIII. and CXXI.; as there is no good reason why it should be Chapter CXXI., it has been placed here.
62 PRAYER FOR CLEANSING FROM SIN [Chap. xiii.
“be made for me whereby I may enter in and adore “Osiris, the lord of Life].”
In the Theban Recension this Chapter appears with- out a rubric, but in the Saite Recension as given in the Turin Papyrus (Lepsius, Todtenbuch, Bll. 4 and 45) we have the following :—
RUBRIC: [This Chapter] is to be recited over a ring [made] of ankham flowers, which shall be laid on the right ear of the khu, together with another ring wrapped up in a strip of byssus cloth, whereon the name of Osiris, Auf-ankh, victorious, born
of the Lady Shert-amsu, victorious, shall be done [in writing] on the day of sepulture.