68 ACCOUNTS, £TC., OF TflE BKlTlSli MUSEtJM. 



of the Priests of Amen-Ra, and the selection of 

 Chapters, Litanies and Hymns, which it contains, 

 represents the attempt which they made to fuse 

 the cult of Amen with that of Osiris, and to make 

 Amen, the personification of the " hidden " power 

 in Nature, to be the overlord of Osiris in the 

 Other World. From this point of view the 

 papyrus is of unique interest. It contains 

 copies of these Chapters of the Theban Recension 

 of the Book of the Dead, in the following order : 

 I., XVI., XV., XVII., XVIII., XXIV.-XXVI., 

 XXVIII., XXVIL, XXXVIII., XL., XXXVI., 

 XXXVIL, LVL, LXL, XXXB., XXXIX., XXVIL, 

 XXVIII., XL, IL, IV., XLIIL, LXL, VL, V., CV., 

 CIIL(?), CIV., XCVL, XCVIL, XCIV., CIIL, 

 XXXVL, LV., CXVIL, CXVIIL, XXL, CXX., 

 CXXIL, XXXL, X., XC, CXXXL, CIL, XXXIL, 

 CXXXIV., XCIX., CVIIL, CXIL, CXIIL, CVIL, 

 CVIIL, CIX., CXIV., CXV., CXVL, LXXXL, 

 LXXX., LXXXVIL, LXXXIIL, LXXVL, LIIL, 

 XCL, XLIV., XCIIL, LB., CLXXXVIIL, CXLL, 

 CXLIL, CXXIV., CXXV., XXVL, CXLVIIL, 

 CXLVIL, CXLVL, CLXXIIL, CXLV., CXLIX., 

 CL., CXLVIIL Among the new texts which are 

 specially connected with the cult of Amen may 

 be mentioned a set of Addresses by Thoth, 

 Fourteen Addresses to Ra, Four Praises of Ra, 

 Hymn to the Forms of Ra, Hymns to Aten, a 

 Series of Utennu, or invocations of Temu, Lists 

 of the Forms of the Gods, and many prayers 

 which were to be recited at intervals during the 

 day and night. 



Presented by Mrs. Mary Greenfield. 

 2. — 1. Fragment of a crystal bowl with inscriptions of 

 kings Semti and Nekht, the latter over an 

 inscription of Merpeba. 



2. Broken flint object of uncertain use and shape. 



3. End of a flat alabaster vessel. 



4-7. Four fragments of stone bowls. 



8-12. Five fragments of large pots with incised 

 inscriptions. 



13. Fragment of blue glazed pottery. 



Nos. 1-13 belong to the 1st dynasty. 



14. A series of six pots, one vase, four cups, two vase 



stands, and three stoppers, in rough pottery ware. 

 1st and Ilnd dynasties. 

 15, 16. Portion of a stone bracelet and a flint flake. From 

 the tomb of Perabsen. Ilnd dynasty. 



17. Unbaked mud votive figure of Osiris, painted and 

 with a bead necklace. XlXth-XXIInd dynasty. 



