The Book of the Dead, Plate 37
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD
The Papyrus of Ani
by
E. A. WALLIS BUDGE
Late keeper of Assyrian and Egyptian
Antiquities
in the British Museum
[1895]
PLATE XXXVII.
Vignette: A shrine wherein stands Sekeri-Ausar
neb setait neter aa neb Neter-xert Seker-Osiris, lord of the hidden place, the
great god, the lord of the underworld.
He wears the white crown with feathers, and holds
in his hands the sceptre, flail, and crook.
The goddess Hathor, in the form of a hippopotamus,
wearing upon her head a disk and horns; in her right hand she holds an unidentified
object, and in her left the emblem of life. Before her are
tables of meat and drink offerings and flowers. Behind the hippopotamus, the divine
cow, Meh-urit, symbolizing the same goddess, looks out from the funeral mountain,
wearing the menat on her neck. At the foot of the mountain is the tomb; and
in the foreground grows a group of flowering plants.
Text: [CHAPTER CLXXXVI.] Hathor, lady of Amentet,
dweller in the land of Urt, lady of Ta-sert, the Eye of Ra, the dweller in his brow,
the beautiful Face in the Boat of Millions of Years. . . . . . . . .
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