Egyptian · AI translation
Book of the Dead, pLeiden T 31
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.
167.1–167.6
[nꜣ] [zẖꜣ,w] [n] [tꜣ] mḥ,t jw:gmj zꜣ-nsw,t ḥr,j-tp Ḫꜥi̯-m-Wꜣs,t ẖr ḏꜣḏꜣ n wꜥ ꜣḫ n tꜣ jmn,tt n Mn-nfr
[The] [writings] [of] [the] mḥt which the king's son and chief magician(?) Khaemwaset found under the head of a spirit of the West of Memphis.
[jw] =[s] nṯri̯ r mḥ,t nb.t n pr-ḥḏ
[It] is more divine than any mḥt of the treasury;
j[w] =[s] [jri̯] =[s] [m] sbꜣ n ḫ,t r-jwd ꜣḫ.pl mtj.pl r tm ḏi̯.t pḥ =w!! pꜣ pḥ [sw] […] ḥḥ n zp
[it] [makes] [itself] [into] a door of fire between spirits and the dead, so as not to let them reach the one who reaches [it] [...] a million times.
[tꜣ] [šꜥ,t] štꜣ jrw jw:gmj zẖꜣ,w-nsw,t ḥr,j-tp Jmn-ḥtp zꜣ n Ḥp,w mꜣꜥ-ḫrw jw =f [ḥr] jri̯[.t] n =f mk,t ḥ[ꜥ]
[The] [document], secret of form, which the royal scribe and chief magician(?) Amenhotep son of Hapu, justified, found, and he made for himself a protection of the body.
ḏd Šrgt n Nngt zꜣ n Jr[k]t
Spoken by Sherget to Nenget, son of Irket:
j Kwršgt […] j p[ꜣ] kꜣ nb mṯꜣ Ḥr,w f[ꜣi̯]-ꜥ nḥm =k wj m-ꜥ [j]ḫ,t-nb[,t] ḏw wḏ.t m rʾ ḫpr.t m ꜥ.wj n [rmṯ.pl] [nṯr].pl ꜣḫ.pl mtj.pl
O Kurshget [...], O bull, lord of the phallus, Horus who raises the arm, may you save me from every evil thing decreed by the mouth, that comes about by the hands of [people], [gods], spirits and the dead.
Translator's note. mḥt is uncertain: perhaps 'the Filled (Eye)', and in 167.2 perhaps 'anything that fills (the treasury)'. ḥry-tp, 'chief', is usually the chief lector or magician. 167.3 is broken, and the editor marks the suffix in pḥ=w as sic. The names Sherget, Nenget, Irket and Kurshget are not identified and may be foreign.
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pLeiden T 31).