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, the hymn to the setting sun (15 B, 3). The

## chapter itself begins with the last word in line 7 of the Turin text. We

have a nearly complete version of it in the tomb of Senmut, the architect of queen Hatshepsu. The text from which I translate is compiled from several Theban papyri.

1. Renouf translates the word in various ways: “sustenance, nutriment, dainties, delicacies.”

2. Note the connection between these two ideas which occurs throughout the chapter: the giving nourishment to the deceased delivers him from all evil.

3. To be suckled by the divine cows, like Hatshepsu at Der el Bahari, by Hathor.

4. Several papyri have here the rubric of 30B, with the name of Mycerinus. The rubric which is here translated is taken from the papyrus of _Nu_. Lepsius calls 148C the vignettes belonging to this chapter. In a columned hall stands Osiris, and behind him the cows, the rudders, and the four gods of the cardinal points. Osiris is sometimes left out. In the papyrus of Ani the god has his hair painted green, and he stands on a green basement.

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PLATE LII.

BOOK OF THE DEAD.

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