530 SEYFFARTH—PAPYRUS-SCROLL. 
of the god Thamus; slaughtered the murderers of the inhab- 
itants in the province of the beneficent goddesses Meni and 
Oni, viz: Hor-sebe, the son of the heavenly herdsman, Zor- 
ine, the thrice mi 
The second column of the Papyrus contains the introdue- 
tion and the beginning of the sacred book itself, written in 
the Hieratic character, of which the following i is a translation 
_—see Plate No 
“The Book of Spune for singing the glories of him who 
made the Isis (the earth), (the glories) of that invisible being 
who made Osiris (the sun), the originator of the life of his 
race, the originator of the life of his nation, and the originator 
of the circle of the solar year with its seasons; the builder of 
the sacrificial quadrupeds, being convenient for him in his 
house of light, and ordered by his father, the lord governor; 
the originator of the priests for his race in the firmament, 
(and) for peda the Lord; (who made) hs Meni (the moon), 
the originator of the flaxseed, of her own sex, and of the spin- 
ners and raced for the races in both the regions of Egypt, 
and also of the makers of cloths for the people; (who made) 
the most holy one, the apotheosed mighty chief of the Cre- 
thi, the warriors of the mighty Egyptians, those in the city of 
the rn (Thebes), the capital of the sovereign of both the 
ty Egypts, of the shepherd of all born in Egypt and its 
Viemnisiess (viz.) Horsebe, the son of the heavenly herdsman 
se e., the erin Zorine, the mighty. 
=? praise him who built cos powerful eminent 
who also 
ords of 
chief of the mighty Crethi of the king of the mit 
in the city of On, the capital of the king of bot 
migh gypts, the shepherd of all ata 
cinities, tee orsebe, the son of the ‘ 
Te garorarzons | 
The Egyptian coloring of these texts “ese Peeps od 
one who is acquainted with setental weit as 
_ Toglyphic figures occurring in those s sve ‘iis 
8 oe in extenso, both vital ally and we 
