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

⁂⁂⁂⁂ is an attribute assigned to Isis in the Hymn to Osiris (line 14) on the Stele of Amenemhait in the Bibliothèque Nationale; and it is there further defined through the addition of the words ⁂⁂⁂⁂, ‘with _clearness_ of utterance’ (_cf._ Ch. 1, note 2). One of the chief names of Isis is ⁂⁂⁂⁂ ‘Mighty in Words of Power.’ She is also described in the Hymn as ‘Most potent of tongue (⁂⁂⁂⁂) and unfailing of speech.’[125] Her name _Urit ḥekait_ may have suggested the name _Urit_ as the place of her manifestation. But we do not know if _Urit_ is to be taken as the name of a town or if some papyri are correct in reading ⁂⁂⁂, which may mean _tribunal_. There were in ancient Egypt _six_ great courts of justice, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. A High Priest of Ptah of Memphis, named Ptahmes, in the early part of the eighteenth dynasty, who was President of these six Courts,[126] has left a very remarkable attestation relative to the 24th Precept, on a beautiful scribe’s palette in basalt (Louvre, _Inv._, 3026). The inscription, after saying that the whole country was subject to the jurisdiction of Ptahmes, proceeds ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. “He turned not a deaf ear to the truth, through the terrors of his Eye;” that is, “the terrors of his Eye” were not used for the perversion of Justice. But what is meant by his “Eye”? M. Pierret (in his _Inscr. inédites du Louvre_, pt. 1, p. 96) suggested the ‘Eye of Horus.’ I think it has reference to the position of Ptahmes as ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. He was ‘the King’s Eye,’ ὁ βασιλέως ὀφθαλμός,[127] and had in consequence, an unlimited power of defeating justice had he been so inclined. It is only by a blunder[128] that the papyrus of Ani makes ⁂⁂⁂⁂ (the nineteenth Nome of Upper Egypt) the scene of the divine Babe’s manifestation, which is unquestionably Heliopolis. The name of the Nome has numerous variants, but they always consist of two signs, _a crooked staff_ (⁂, ⁂, ⁂, ⁂) either double or with _a twisted cord_ (⁂, ⁂, ⁂, ⁂), and the final sound of the name (when expressed) is in ⁂, ⁂. The key to the phonetic reading of the name of the Heliopolitan Nome is to be found in the inscription at Edfu (J. de Rougé, _Edfou_, pl. 46); ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂. Here the _crook_ of the name is identified with the _crook_ and _flail_ ⁂⁂⁂⁂ _ams_, ⁂⁂⁂ _ȧms_, ⁂⁂⁂ or ⁂⁂⁂ _emsit_ of Osiris, who is called in the Book of the Dead (_Todt._, 142, 9) ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, _the August Dismembered[129] one of the Powers of Annu_. And this is how, in the important papyrus _Pc_, we find ⁂⁂⁂ in Ch. 17 as the equivalent of ⁂⁂⁂⁂, a few words after, in the same papyrus. Both groups are to be read _ȧmsu_; which means _furnished with the crook_ (_or sceptre_) _and flail_, ⁂⁂ or ⁂.[130]