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Source for the
composition: chapter 7 is not attested before the New Kingdom. It is a ritual
pronouncement with reference to a wax figure, and is found together with chapter
119 in several manuscripts, including that of Hepres, UC 71000; the following
version is taken from the Eighteenth Dynasty papyrus Cairo 2512:
r n sn Ts aApp
i mnH HAq iT awA
anx m nnyw
n gA.i (n) aq mtwt.k m Haw.i
tm.i gr n.k
n aq.k m Haw.i ipn
ink wa xnty
nwn
iw.i mkt nt ntrw nbw Dt
StAw Dsr st HHw
ink imy.sn pr.i Hna itm
ink n ippw wDA.kwi sp sn
Formula for
passing the sandbank of Aapep
O one of wax, who
plunders and seizes by violence, who lives on the weary
I am not inert, your poison
does not enter my body, I will not be silent at you
You cannot enter this my
body
I am the sole one at the
fore of Nun
I am the protection of every
god, eternally
Secret, separated in place
from millions
I am the one among them,
emerging with Atum
I am the one not counted, in
my health, in my health
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