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TRANS. ST. LOUIS ACAD. SCIENCE. 



GOODWIN. 



9. his counsellors did honor to 

 me; he gave me the post of chief of 

 the priests of Sechet in Es-Senem 

 (Isle of Bigeh), chief of the priests 

 of Seth-et, 



10. of the double land, Head of 

 the park. Thou didst defend me 

 in the battle of the Greeks, when 

 thou didst smife Asia, 



II. when they killed many of my 

 companions. He (the enemy) raised 

 not his hand against me, (his) eyes 

 were dull. 



12. Afterwards thy majesty said 

 to me, " Go thou to Suten - Senen 

 (Heracleopolis). Be thou diligent to 

 traverse the regions alone 



13. thyself." I embarked at Uat- 

 Ur (Pehu of ist N. E. Nome), I fear- 

 ed no difficulty,! disobeyed not thy 

 command, I reached Suten- Senen. 



14. Not a hair of my head was 

 hurt. The beginning was observed 

 in accordance with that which thou 

 hadst commanded ; in the end, thou 

 gavest me a long space of repose. 



15. O! all ye priests who serve 

 this great god, Chnum, king of the 

 double land, Har of the horizons. 



THE WRITER. 



the clothes of the gods, the court 

 shining for everyone, delighting 

 for everyone. I joined together the 

 vesture, I wove the garments of 

 Isis' house (of the earth) , the grains 

 of the mother of all ; I wove the 

 garments 



of the southern and the northern 

 lands; I spun the pudendum, the 

 limb of the man ; I devised the limb 

 of matrix for thy sake for populat- 

 ing all countries of the earth, con- 

 formably to the great Creator of the 

 race of nations within the circuit of 

 the world ; 



I made its valleys, the glens, the 

 multitude of rivers, with my own 

 arms. Moreover, I worked the voice 

 of man, the two eyes, the limbs of 

 the arms, the eyelids, the eyelashes, 

 the pupil, the nose, the ear — I thy 

 great God. Further, I formed for 

 the man especially a walking ac- 

 cording to the Lord autocrat of the 

 world ; I devised the socket of the 

 hip-bone, the radius, the nerves, 

 the hands, the feet, the palms, the 

 flesh of the arm, the limb of the el- 

 bow ; I have woven the vessel for 

 effusing the water; I have, further, 

 combined the girdle of thy gut 

 (anus) ; again, I stitched the scro- 

 tum, the testiculi on thy body, the 

 toes of the foot, I the Lord autocrat 

 of the world. 



Again, I planted the hairs of the 

 skull, I contrived the kettle of the 

 brain, the canal of respiration; I 

 made the palate, the teeth, the 

 throat, thy voice for uttering words, 

 delightful songs for comforting the 

 heart. 



I am the emanator of the Lord, the 

 servant of that God, the image of 

 the mighty El, the Lord of the host. 



