Book
of the Dead Chapter 43
The composition is not attested
in this form in the Middle Kingdom; it first occurs among other Book of the
Dead chapters on the coffin of the king's wife Mentuhotep of the Seventeenth
Dynasty. However, its first and second parts do occur separately among
the formulae written on the sides of Middle Kingdom coffins (the first
part is Coffin Text 390, in the numbering system assigned the coffin formulae
by de Buck, and the second part is the end of Coffin Text 304 and beginning
of Coffin Text 941).
Transliteration
First part
r n tm rdit
Sad.tw tp n N r.f m Xrt-nTr Dd.f
ink wr sA wr nsr sA nsr
rdy n.f tp.f m-xt Sad.tw.f
nn nHm.tw tp.i m-a.i
Second part
iw.i Ts.kwi mA.kwi rnpi.kwi
ink wsir
Translation
First part
Formula for preventing
the head of N being cut off from him in the underworld. He says:
I am the great one, son
of a great one, the flame, son of a flame,
he to whom his head is
given after it has been cut off;
my head can never be
removed from me.
Second part
I am joined, fresh, young,
I am Osiris.
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