CHAPTER XVIII.

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9,900, sheet 15) ; and from the Papyrus of Ani (Brit. Mus. No. 10,470, sheets 13—14).]
Vignettes : A pylon surmounted by feathers typical of Maat and by uraei wearing disks, and a pylon surmounted by Anpu (Anubis) or Ap-uat and by an Utchat.
Text: (1) “Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris “victorious (2) over his enemies, make thou the scribe ““Nebseni to be victorious over his enemies, as thou “didst make Osiris victorious over his enemies in
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THE GODS OF ANNU
“the presence of the (3) sovereign “princes who are with Ra and Osiris “in Annu (Heliopolis), on the night of “the ‘things of the night,’ and on the “night of the battle, (4) and on the “night of the shackling of the Sebaw “fiends, and on the day of the destruc- “tion of Neb-er-tcher.” !
A. Vignette: The gods Tem, Shu, Tef-
nut, Osiris, and Thoth.
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes in Annu are Tem, Shu, Tef- nut [Osiris, and Thoth], (2), and the ‘shackling of the Sebaw fiends’ signi- fieth the destruction of the fiends of Set when a second time (3) he worketh evil.
“Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris “victorious over his enemies, make “thou the Osiris (4) Ani to be vic- “torlous over his enemies in the “presence of the great and sovereign “princes who are in Tattu, on the “night of making the Tet to stand up “ine att:
1 T.e., the day of the mutilation of Osiris. * In the ceremony which took place annually
at Mendes, a Tet it was ‘set up” with great
reverence in memory of the resurrection of the body of Osiris.
THE GODS OF TATTU
B. Vignette : The gods Osiris, Isis, Neph- thys, and Horus.
Text: (1) The great sovereign princes in Tattu are Osiris, Isis, Nephthys, and Heru-netch -hra-tef.' Now the [night of] of making the Tet to stand up (2) in Tattu signifieth [the lifting up of] the arm and shoulder of Horus who dwelleth in Sekhem (Leto- polis); and these gods stand behind Osiris [to protect him] even as do the swathings which clothe him (3).
“Hail, Thoth, who madest Osiris “victorious over his enemies, make “thou Osiris Ani triumphant over his “enemies in the presence of (4) the “sovereign princes who are in Sek- “hem (Letopolis), on the night of the “things of the night [festival] in “ ¢ Sekhem,’ ”