Book
of the Dead Chapter 22
The composition is not attested
in the Middle Kingdom; it first occurs among other Book of the Dead chapters
on the coffin of the king's wife Mentuhotep of the Seventeenth Dynasty.
The
version below follows the partly damaged version in the Book of the Dead of
Nu (Lapp 1997: pl.24), completed
from various sources by Naville in his standard edition of the New Kingdom and
Third Intermediate Period papyri.
r n rdit r
n wsir N n.f m Xrt-nTr
wbn.n.i m swHt imt tA
StAw
iw rdi. n.i r.i mdw.i
im.f m-bAH nTrw n dwAt
nn xsf.tw a.i m DADAt
nt nTr aA
ink wsir nb r-sTAw
nw nty m tp xtyw
ii.n.i ir.n.i mr ib.i
m iw nsrsr
axm.i sDt
Translation
Formula for giving the
mouth of the Osiris N to him in the underworld
I have shone in the egg
that is in the land of mysteries,
My mouth has been given
to me so that I may speak with it in the presence of the lord of the underworld.
My hand cannot be repelled
in the tribunal of the great god.
I am Osiris lord of Rosetau,
that one, who is on top
of the terrace.
I have come, and done
what my heart wishes in the island of fire,
and I extinguish the
flame.
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