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

----- Footnote 145: _Sic._ Footnote 146: To press the identity of ⁂ and ⁂⁂⁂ in the name of this hour is to forget that its variants would equally prove that ⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂. Footnote 147: See _P.S.B.A._ IX, p. 313, and two previous articles of mine there referred to. The corrections I have to make are the following:—I wrongly assumed that the _fish_ which in hieratic papyri crosses the foot of the sign ⁂ in the variants of ⁂ was the same fish as we find in the group ⁂⁂ = ⁂⁂⁂ = ⁂. The fishes are different. On referring to M. Naville’s _Festival Hall of Osorkon II_, pl. 18, pictures will be found of the ⁂⁂ and the ⁂⁂. The first of these is clearly the fish in ⁂⁂, _ḥem-reu_, and the corresponding sign in the variant is to be read ⁂, _ḥem_, in harmony with the other evidence produced by W. Max Müller (_Recueil_, vol. IX). The picture of it does not enable one to determine its species. The pictures at Bubastis of the ⁂⁂ seem to indicate the _Synodontis_, but a picture found by Petrie (_Medum_, pl. 12) shows an immense fish which has been identified with the _Latus_ or _Perca_ _Nilotica_. This being of the Acanthopterygian family is of course a very formidable _warrior_, like our own small perch, which, as Mr. Ward says, “does not yield its life without endangering the person of its captor, for the formidable rows of spinous rays belonging to the first dorsal fin have wounded the hands of many an incautious angler.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XLII. BOOK OF THE DEAD. [Illustration: CHAPTER CXXXVIIB. =Papyrus, Brit. Mus., No. 9900.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXXXIIIAX. =Papyrus, Brocklehurst II.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXXXVIIB. =Papyrus, Brit. Mus., No. 9900.= ] [Illustration: CHAPTER CXXXVIA. =Papyrus, Leyden II.= ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PLATE XLIII. BOOK OF THE DEAD [Illustration: