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

of the passage has so long been misunderstood. The sense of the first word has long been recognised, and ‘deaf’ is the meaning rightly assigned to ⁂⁂ in Birch’s Dictionary. One instance like the following (from _Unas_, 608) is sufficient to settle the question—⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “He is not so deaf that he should not hear thy voice.” That the subject of these attributes is the Osiris is seen by reference to _At_, where instead of ‘the Osiris’ the deceased speaks in the first person, ⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂⁂, “I am dumb, I am deaf.”