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Book of the Dead, pTurin Museo Egizio 1791 Tb 1-113

English for the 4 passages 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.

30.16–30.17

30.16

ḏd-mdw ḥr ḫprr n ꜥꜣ[,t](?) mḥ[y](?) sqd{.t} swꜥb m nb,w rḏi̯[.w] m-ẖnw jb n z jri̯ n =f wp[,t]-rʾ gs m tp[,j] nwd{,t}

Words to be spoken over a scarab of ꜥꜣ[t]-stone(?), mḥy(?), sqd, purified with gold, placed inside the heart of a man for whom the Opening of the Mouth has been performed, anointed with the finest nwd-unguent.

30.17

ḏd.t ḥr =f m ḥkꜣ{,t}

To be said over it as magic.

Translator's note. ꜥꜣt is a costly stone (restored and doubtful); mḥy (doubtful) and sqd are not understood, perhaps terms for setting or inlay; 'purified with gold' (swꜥb m nbw) may mean mounted in gold.

39.12–39.16

39.12

wḏ nkn =k jn Mꜣꜥ,t

Your injury is decreed by Maat;

39.13

sḫr ṯw jm,j.w wꜣ,t

those who are on the road overthrow you.

39.14

ḫr zbn ꜥꜣpp ḫfti̯ n Rꜥ,w

Fall, slither away, Apophis, enemy of Ra!

39.15

j rwj ꜥḏ m jꜣb,tt n.t p,t ḥr ḫrw qrj,w m nhmhm wn sbꜣ.pl ꜣḫ,t tp-ꜥ Rꜥ,w

O, depart, cut-up one(?), in the east of the sky, at the sound of the storm-cloud roaring, when the gates of the horizon open before Ra!

39.16

pri̯ =f bꜣgi̯[.w] rf m nzp,w

He goes forth weary, then, from the nzpw.

Translator's note. 39.15: ꜥḏ is uncertain ('cut up'?), and the syntax of the line is loose. 39.16: nzpw is not understood; 'he' may be Ra or Apophis; bꜣgj 'weary, slack'.

39.31–39.36

39.31

jri̯.n =s r =k

what she has done against you.

39.32

mr ṯw n =s ẖr,t n-ḏ,t

You are sick on her account, a portion for ever(?).

39.33

zb[n].n =k bnn =k n-ḏ,t

You have let your potency(?) slip away for ever;

39.34

ꜣ nk =k n-ḏ,t ḫfti̯{.pl} n Rꜥ,w

ah, you copulate for ever(?), enemy of Ra!

39.35

ḫsf =f ḥr =k msḏi̯ Rꜥ,w

He drives back your face, you whom Ra hates.

39.36

mꜣꜣ =k ḥꜣ =k

You look behind you.

Translator's note. 39.32-39.34 are obscure. bnn is taken as 'potency, begetting', zbn as 'slip away'. In 39.34 ꜣ may be an interjection or particle; a negative ('you shall never copulate') may be meant.

72.30

jr rḫ mḏꜣ,t tn ḥr-tp tꜣ jri̯.tw m zẖꜣ,w ḥr qrs =f rʾ-pw jw =f pri̯ =f m hrw m ḫpr,w nb mri̯ =f ḥnꜥ ꜥq r ḥw,t =f nn šnꜥ.tw =f

As for one who knows this book on earth, or [if] it is put in writing on his coffin, he will go forth by day in any form he wishes, and enter his mansion, and he will not be turned back.

The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open pTurin Museo Egizio 1791 Tb 1-113).