CHAPTER XxX.

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni (Brit. Mus. No. 9,900, sheet 12). ]
Vignette: This Chapter, in the Theban Version, has neither vignette nor title.
Text: (1) “Hail, Thoth, who didst make Osiris (2) “to triumph over his enemies, snare thou the enemies “of Osiris, the scribe Nebseni, the lord of piety, in the “presence of the great sovereign princes of every god “and goddess; (3) in the presence of the great “sovereign princes who are in Annu (Heliopolis) on “the night of the battle and of the overthrow of the ‘Sebau-fiend in Tattu; on (4) the night of making to “stand up the double Tet in Sekhem (Letopolis) ; on “the night of the things of the night in Sekhem, in Pet, “(5) and in Tepu;! on the night of the stablishing of “Horus in the heritage of the things of his father in “the double land of Rekhti; (6) on the night when “Tsis maketh lamentation at the side of her brother “Osiris in Abtu (Abydos); on the night of the Haker “festival (7) of the distinguishing [between] the dead “(i.e,, the damned) and the Spirits on the path of the ‘dead (i.e., the damned) ; on the night of the judgment ‘of those who are to be annihilated at the great [festival
1 Pet and Tepu were the two halves of the city Per-Uatchet, or the metropolis of the XIXth nome of Lower Egypt.
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“of ] the ploughing and the turning up of the earth (8) “oreat in Naarerut-f in Re-stau; and on the night of “making Horus to triumph over hisenemies. Horus is “mighty, the northern and southern halves of heaven “rejoice, (9) Osiris is content thereat and his heart is “olad. Hail, Thoth, make thou to triumph Osiris, the ‘scribe Nebseni, over his enemies (10) in the presence “of the sovereign princes of every god and every goddess, “and in the presence of you, ye sovereign princes who “passed judgment on Osiris behind the shrine.”
In the Saite Recension this Chapter has no vignette, but it has the title, “Another Chapter of the Chaplet ‘of victory,’ and is arranged in tabular form, The words “Hail, Thoth, make Osiris Auf-ankh, trium- “phant, to triumph over his enemies even as thou “ didst make Osiris to triumph over his enemies,” which are written in two horizontal lines, are to be repeated before each column of text.. The “great sovereign princes” invoked are those of :—(1) Annu (Heliopolis), (2) Tattu, (8) Sekhem (Letopolis), (4) Pe and Tep, (5) An-arut-f, (6) the double land of Rekhti, (7) Re- stau, (8) Abtu, (9) the Paths of the Dead, (10) the Ploughing festival in Tattu, (11) Kher-aha, (12) Osiris, (13) heaven and earth, (14) every god and every god- dess. The rubric reads :—
If this chapter be recited regularly and always by a man who hath purified himself in water of natron, he shall come forth by day after he hath come into port (i.e., is dead), and he shall perform all the transformations which his heart shall dictate, and he shall come forth from the fire.
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130 THE GIVING OF A MOUTH TO THE DECEASED