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

of life_. The pictures in the temple of Luxor (_Denkm._, III, 74 and 75) are well known which represent the birth of Amenophis III. The infant prince in each of these pictures is accompanied by his _ka_, his exact image. The _ka_ is nursed and suckled by the same goddesses. But perhaps the best commentary on our text is to be found in the picture recently published by the French Mission Archéologique (_Temple de Luxor_, fig. 203), in which both the royal infant and his _ka_ are being fashioned by the hand of Chnum, upon his potter’s wheel.