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The Egyptian Book of the dead

Note 6 — Chapter XVII

P. Le Page (Peter Le Page) Renouf translation

The reading of the name is proved by the numerous variants of this passage to be Ȧmsu. In M. Naville’s edition, II, pl. 41, the name, as written in Ce, would seem to be ȧm. But I already in Zeitschr., 1877 (p. 98) pointed out, that in this manuscript the last sign is at the top of a column, and that at the foot of the preceding column there is a space where the signs , following (as they still do in the next passage), have been obliterated. No one from merely looking at M. Naville’s copy would guess that there was any interval between and .

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