Egyptian Book of the Dead

CHAPTER CLXVIII.

CHAPTER CLXVIII. Chapter 168 should not have been placed among those of the Book of the Dead, it belongs to another book similar to the [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] , the book engraved on the walls of the royal tombs. It describes gods and genii of [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] the bounds( 1 ) in the Tuat who confer certain blessings on the deceased; such as this: “those who lift up their faces towards the sky at the prow of the boat of Rā, grant that Osiris N. may see Rā when he rises.” A vignette gives the appearance of the god or genius spoken of. Every one of them is followed by this sentence: “for the libation of a vase has been made on earth by Osiris N. who is (now) the lord of abundance, and goes round the garden of Hotepit.” The three versions which have been preserved of this text are 342 very fragmentary. The most complete, papyrus 10478 of the British Museum, contains only the [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] [Source image: ⁂] 7 to 12. As the interest of this text, the character of which is chiefly pictorial, lies in the vignettes, it has been thought unnecessary to give a translation of it. 1. See note 2 , Chapter 127.