The Egyptian Book of the dead by P. Le Page Renouf and Edouard Naville

copies. The later copies have a different text. It is impossible to say _what_ kind of fastening is meant. ⁂ might be a ligament or a vertebra—though more probably the latter. But it might be a combination of several pieces. ⁂⁂⁂ is the occiput, and this suggests the hypothesis of cervical vertebrae. But the number of these is not four but seven. Of these _three_ are peculiar; the Atlas which supports the head, the Axis upon which the head turns, and the Vertebra prominens with its long spinal process. But see the Vignette of chapter 42 from _Pd_ where four vertebrae are figured.