Egyptian · AI translation
Book of the Dead, pBerlin 3031
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
166.1–166.2
tꜣ mḏꜣ,t j:gmm!.t r ḫḫ n nswt Wsr-Mꜣꜥ,t-Rꜥ,w-stp-n-Rꜥ,w ꜥnḫ-[w]ḏꜣ-s[nb] m ẖr,t-nṯr
The book that was found at the throat of King Usermaatre-setepenre, may he live, prosper and be healthy, in the necropolis.
j Wrbg j Kmmr j ꜥmg j Krḫm j Kmry Nywnrmt nꜣ wdḥ ḫr,tw Rꜥ,w Jtn,w r ḫrp n =w n,tt jmm! ḥr =ṯn{n} n jꜣkb,y ḏr sw mt.tw m gꜣw smꜣ sn =f
O Werbeg, O Kemmer, O Amag, O Kerkhem, O Kemry, Nyunermet, you who pour out (offerings) before Ra and the Aten, to present to them what is ... upon you for the mourner, since he died in want, the one who killed his brother.
Translator's note. Usermaatre-setepenre is Ramesses II. Line 2 is largely obscure: the opening names are foreign-sounding magical names and their vocalisation is a guess; wdḥ 'pour out', ḫr.tw (taken as 'before'), and jmm! (marked by the editor; perhaps 'give') are all uncertain, and the syntax of the whole line is doubtful. 'The one who killed his brother' is presumably Seth.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pBerlin 3031).