eighth of an inch. The top of each column is occupied for two 

 and one-half inches by colored vignettes, relating to the subject of 

 the paragraph. 



The 149th chapter, to which the fragment belongs, is one of the 

 highly mystical chapters, and, with the 148th, was to be recited on 

 the festivals of the first, sixth and fifteenth days of the month, in 

 order to let the deceased pass the mystical regions of Akar (a kind 

 of Purgatory?) and to allow the soul to come out of them. 



The entire 149th chapter contained fourteen parts or " abodes " 

 ot the Hades. In this papyrus we have the eleventh, twelfth, thir- 

 teenth and a portion of the fourteenth or last : but even the first 

 three are not complete. 



Almost all the vigaettes have demons with swords in their hands. 

 The first vignette (eleventh abode) contains a zigzag patn, which is 

 not a staircase as it appears for want of perspective, and two 

 demons. One of them is female and lion-headed, with two 

 swords ; the other is male, a Cynocephalus God, also with two 

 swords. 



The following vignette (twelfth abode) contains a hippopotamus 

 demon with axe-blade containing four swords. 



The thirteenth abode contains the goddess Thaur or Thoueris, a 

 concubine of Typho, the evil genius Sepu, with the features of hip- 

 popotamus and holding a scarabaeus. 



In the papyrus of Turin there is also a bareheaded god with bow 

 and arrows ; in its place are three horse-shoe-shaped abodes. 



The last vignette is very much mutilated, but, with the help of 

 the other rituals, we can reconstruct it. We have a crocodile, a hawk 

 and an antropo-sphinx anubis, a Shes or tie God adoring, hawk 

 again, befaced demon with swords, nit and horns. 



According to the very regular writing of hieratic text, the colors 

 of vignettes and the differences from other texts, we can say 

 that this fragment belongs to the twenty-first dynasty, like one of 

 those extracts made for religious purposes, preserved in the temples 

 in order to be recited on the festivals of Uka or Thoth, the birth- 

 day of Osiris, the manifestations of Khem and the night of the 

 hakr. 



The first line of each column, containing the title of the para- 

 graph, is written in red ink, all the others in black. 



Although there are seventy-eight fragments of the ''Book of the 

 Dead " (of which twenty-five only in England and seventeen in 



