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is hopelessly corrupt. On comparing the three copies given by M. Naville (two of them being from the papyrus of Nebseni) it will be seen how impossible it is to restore a grammatical text out of such discordant materials. The difficulty is not removed by having recourse to the papyri of a later period.

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PLATE XXV.

BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCVII .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER CIII .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCVIII .

=LEPSIUS, Todtenbuch.= ]

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## CHAPTER CIV .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCIX .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER CV .

=Papyrus of Sutimes, Bibl. Nat.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER CV .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER CVIII .

=Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9,900.= ]

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PLATE XXVI

BOOK OF THE DEAD.

[Illustration: CHAPTER XCIX . =Papyrus Busca.=]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCIX .

=Papyrus, Berlin Museum, No. 2.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCIX .

=Papyrus, Brit. Mus., No. 9905.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCIX .

=Papyrus, Musée du Louvre, No. III, 89.= ]

[Illustration:

## CHAPTER XCIX .

=Papyrus Brocklehurst, II.= ]

[Illustration: CHAPTER XCIX . =Papyrus, British Museum, No. 9900.=]

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