Chapter 160

, we have a text from London, 9900 (_Aa_); it is not complete, but the gaps can very easily be filled up from the Papyrus Busca.

The vignette of _Aa_ represents Thoth bringing the column, enclosed in a box or a casket.

1. I suppose the symbolical expressions of this Chapter mean that the _neshem_, of which the column is made, is a very hard stone, which is proof against any injury.

⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂, which I translated “crush,” means probably “grind to powder,” and ⁂⁂, “to receive a cut,” means to be scratched or incised by a sculptor’s tool. The power of the amulet consists in making the body of the deceased as hard as _neshem_.

2. ⁂, a variant of ⁂ when it refers to Tmu (Nav., _Todt._, ch. XVII, l. 12).

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