TAA i.2.4.8a

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With out hesitation/<certainty> <It at once becomes obvious> one may say/<it can be said> that the objects placed/<placed in the Recess> here form

part of one great recondite idea, and that each of them have a

mystical potency of some kind <and> <in connection with the dead, the future of the deceased.> As D^r Alan Gardiner rightly says there is:

"It is necessary to admit without hesitation that the idea of a mystical potency

inherent in the images of things is a characteristically Egyptian conception;"

and that it "is obvious in the case of the Shawabti-figures, the model boats

deposited in tombs, the sham loaves and offerings, and in numerous other cases".

(Tomb of Amenemhet, p. 20). It is up to us to find not what are their repectives^sic

divine are/<or> mystical powers.