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The Egyptian Book of the dead

Note 1 — Chapter CXIII

P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation

Nechen, the chief hieroglyphic variants of which are , , and , was situated in the third nome ( Ten) of Upper Egypt, and was called by the Greeks Hieracōnpolis, ‘city of the Hawks,’ from the hawk-headed divinities mentioned in this chapter as Powers of Nechen, and of which numberless pictures are found on the monuments.

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