chapter 44

on the cavern where the dead fall into the darkness, ‘but the Eye of Horus supporteth me, and Apuat reareth me up.’ There may be an allusion here, as there is elsewhere, to _shooting stars_. It is worth noticing that—a group which ought, I think, to be read ⁂⁂⁂⁂ (_Ca_ and _Ac_) has in most papyri the wrong determinative ⁂ instead of ⁂, which was misunderstood, and that _Ab_ has even ⁂⁂⁂.

4. A corrupt passage, like the next.

5. The corruption of the whole passage between [ ] will be best understood on comparing it with the names of “the Rudders of Heaven” as given in