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Egyptian Book of the Dead

Chapter CLIX
Ancient Egyptian trans. P. Le Page Renouf & E. Naville • c. c. 1550 BCE
1.
O thou who comest out every day, in the divine house, she who has a big voice, who goeth round.... She takes hold of the potent formulæ of her father, the mummy which is on the bull. She is Renent
2.
Said on a column of green Felspar, on which this Chapter has been written, and which is put on the neck of the deceased
3.
The vignette of this Chapter and the next, show distinctly that the is a miniature column or tent-pole, with the papyrus capital, and papyrus leaves at the base
4.
This Chapter is taken from the Turin text; parts of it are quite unintelligible