CHAPTER XLI.

[From the Papyrus of Nebseni, sheet 25. ]
Vignette: The deceased armed with a knife and a short
staff; see Naville, op. eit., Bd. I. Bl. 55, In the Turin Papyrus
the deceased is piercing a serpent which lies writhing on a barred instrument (see Lepsius, op. ec7t., Bl. 19).
Text: (1) THE CHAPTER OF DRIVING AWAY THE SLAUGHTERINGS WHICH ARE PERFORMED IN THE UNDERWORLD. Nebseni, the scribe and designer in the Temples of Upper and Lower Egypt, he to whom fair veneration is paid, (2) the son of the scribe and artist Thena, triumphant, saith :—
“Fail, Tem, I have become glorious (or a Khu) in “the presence of the double Lion-god, the great (3) “ood, therefore open thou unto me the gate of the god “Seb. I smell the earth (i.e, I bow down so that “my nose toucheth the ground) of the great god who “dwelleth in the underworld, and I advance (4) into
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‘the presence of the company of the gods who dwell “with the beings who are in the underworld. Hail, “thou guardian of the divine door of the city of Beta, “thou Neti! who dwellest in Amentet, (5) I eat food, “and I have life through the air, and the god Atch-ur ‘“Jeadeth me with [him] to the mighty boat of (6) ‘Khepera. I hold converse with the divine mariners ‘at eventide, I enter in, I go forth, (7) and I see the ‘being who is there; I lift him up, and I say that “which I have to say unto him whose throat stinketh ‘(for lack of air]. I have life, (8) and I am delivered, “having lain down in death, Hail, thou that bringest ‘ offerings and oblations, bring forward thy mouth and ‘make to draw nigh the writings (9) (or lists) of offer- “ings and oblations. Set thou Right aud Truth firmly ‘upon their throne, make thou the writings to draw “nigh, and set thou up the goddesses (10) in the “presence of Osiris, the mighty god, the Prince of ever- “Jastingness, who counteth his years, who hearkeneth “unto those who are in the islands (or pools), who “yaiseth his (11) right shoulder, who judgeth the divine “princes, and who sendeth [the deceased] into the ‘presence of the great sovereign princes who live in “the underworld.”
! T.e., the ‘* god of the double red crown.”
Chap, xlii. 3] OF AVOIDING SLAUGHTER I
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