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through their dark domain," and that "it was perfectly natural

that the jackal should be considered the animal of the god of the

dead; in the desert where the dead were buried, these animals

might be seen every evening, prowling about in the dusk."

The fact that this animal is represented, without

exception, as a neuter (genderless), may have origin

to certain precautionary measures, "to prevent indignities

from being offered" to the body, such as is mentioned

by Herodotus (Book II, 89), when writing upon the subject

of embalming and ancient Egyptian embalmers.

<(2)

(262)

Between the forepaws of Anubis an ivory palette of the Royal

daughter Mert-Aten, with an inscription upon it stating that

she was "Beloved" and born of the Great Royal wife, Nefer.Tete

(the mother-in-law of Tut.ankh.Amen).>

<(2)

(Carter Newberry, Tomb of Thothmes IV, p. 9.)

Magical Flame (of the Southern Wall). Text from Chap. CLI (f) of the B. of the Dead: -

[ 𓂀 ]

[ 𓂀 ] = Thothmes IV. According to the

rubric given in the papyri, the flame was a torch of Uaa-reeds

(Gardiner, Tomb of Amenemhet, p. 117.)

"It is I who hinder the sand from choking the secret chamber, and who repel

that one who would repel him with the desert-flame. I have set aflame the

desert(?), I have caused the path to be mistaken. I am for the protection of the

Osiris N.">

<(1)

(263)

See pl. 4

Before his pylon (pylon of Anubis), upon the floor, just within

the threshold of the doorway of the chamber, a Reed Torch upon a

clay pedestal bearing ~~a magical text~~/<an incantation (2)> reading:>

<(1)

[ 𓂀 ] Pap. Ani, pls. 8, 37, chaps. 17, 186.

[ 𓂀 ] Mḥt wrt. (Erman voc. p. 68).

[ 𓂀 ], ỉrt Rʿ, the Eye of Re = name of Hathor (Erman voc. p. 16).

cf Erman, Eg. Religion, pp. 12, 28 and 31.

[ 𓂀 ]

[ 𓂀 ]. pap. Ani pl. 37.>

Oct. 28.

Removed the head of a Cow (264) and the ivory and ebony veneered

casket (267), into the Antechamber ready for transport to the Lab.

(3)

(264.)

Behind Anubis, we in the centre of the Chamber was placed

the golden head <with copper horns> of the Meh-wrït Cow ⁽¹⁾./<,> called the Eye of Re, which

in all probability is a figurative form of the goddess Hathor as

"Mistress of Amentit", of "the Land of Sunset", "Mistress of Ta.Zesur[?]", who

receives in her mountain of the West the Setting Sun and the

dead. Around her neck was tied a linen covering, knotted at t under

the throat, and her eyes inlaid ~~taking~~/<take> the form of the Eye of Re, from

which she <no doubt> derives her name.