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partment attached t o the Temple of 
at Memphis, and he 
was in the immediate service of 
lord of the two lands”, 
his king. His father and mother were called T h e n a and 
respectively 
; 
his wife’s name was Seneb or Senseneb. 
His two sons were called 
and 
and his 

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X 
T H E
R O O K
OF 
T H E DEAD 
daughter Thent-Men-nefer. T h e Papyrus of Nebseni contains 
77 Chapters, not reckoning duplicates and triplicates, which are 
as follows 
:-
I 
(sheet 
I
), 
5 (sheet 
11
), 
6 (sheet 
I
O
), 
(sheet 
17 (sheets 
12, 
18 (sheet 
2 0
(sheet 
2 2
(sheet 5), 
(sheet 
26 (sheets 4, 
(sheet 4), 
(sheet 
41 
(sheet 
44 (sheet 
46 (sheet 5), 47 (sheet 
48 (sheet 
5 0
(sheets 
56 (sheets, 5, 
11
), 
62 (sheet 4), 64 (sheets 
65 (sheet 
71 (sheet 
72 (sheet 3), 76 (sheet 
77 (sheet 
81 
(sheet 3), 8 3 (sheet 
2), 
84 (sheet 2), 85 (sheet 
2), 
8 6 (sheet 
87 (sheet 
1
1
), 
88 
(sheet 
11
), 
(sheet 
1
1
), 
92 (sheet 6), 96 and 
97 (sheet 
11
), 
(sheet 
(sheets 5, 
IO
, 
(sheet 
104 (sheet 
105 (sheet 4), 106 (sheets 16, 
(sheet 7), 
(sheet S), 
(sheet 
(sheet 7 ) ,
(sheet 7), 114 (sheet 
and 
(sheet 
11
), 
(sheet 
125 (sheets 29, 
(sheet 
(sheet 6), 
(sheet 
136 
(sheet 
A 
(sheet 
B 
(sheet 
and 146 (sheets 
2, 
3, 4), 148 (sheet 4), 
(sheets 27, 
150 (sheet 
(sheet 
(sheet 
(sheet 
I
O
), 
156 (sheet 
I
O
), 
160 (sheet 
I
O
), 
166 (sheet 
167 (sheet 
172 (sheet 
(sheet 
(sheet 
178 (sheet 
(sheet 
(sheets 
20, 21). 
A 
photograph 
of the 
papyrus was published by the 
Trustees 
of 
the British Museum 
(Photographs 
o f
the Papyrus 
of 
Nebseni in the British Museum, 
London, 1876) with an in- 
troduction 
by the late 
Dr. 
Birch 
; 
fifty-two Chapters from 
were published 
by M. Naville in 
Das Aegyptische Todtenbuch, 
Berlin 1886, and he gave a detailed description of it 
his 
Einleitung 
(pp. 
48-54) t o that work 
; 
a French translation of 
the papyrus was published by Massy 
( L e p a p y r u s Nebseni, 
exemplaire hie'roglyphique du livre des morts conserve' au Bri- 
tish Museum, traduit 
A. 
M., 
Gand, 1885, 
; 
and extracts 
from it, with translations, have been published by Birch, 
ville, Pierret and others. T h e numbers of the Chapters pub- 
lished in the present work 
6, 
17 (part), 18 (part), 
38 
A
, 
41, 
62, 64, 72, 92, 104, 
(part), 
166, 167, 172, 173, 177, and 178. 

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D E S C R I P T I O N
OF T H E PAPYRI. 
XI 
T
HE 
PAPYRUS OF 
T h i s papyrus was found at 
Thebes, and was acquired by the Trustees 
of 
the British Museum 
in 
1890. 
It measures 65 ft. 
in., by 
I 
ft. 
in. 
mounted under glass in thirty sheets, and bears the number 
It is, 
I 
believe, the oldest of the painted papyri in- 
scribed with the Theban Recension 
of the Book of the Dead, 
and it may, with little doubt, be considered a product 
of 
the 
first half of the period of the rule of the kings of the XVIIIth 
dynasty 
it is very little later than that of Nebseni. 
T h e
papyrus begins with a coloured scene in which the deceased is 
standing i n adoration before Osiris who is seated in a shrine, 
and only a few of the Chapters, 
i. 
e., 
those 
of the Transform- 
ations, Arits, Pylons, 
and o n e o r two others, have vignettes. 
T h e text is in black throughout, and only the titles of the 
Chapters and the Rubrics are given in red 
; 
the 
papyrus 
is most carefully written, and it is probably the work of Nu 
himself. 
It must rank as one of the chief authorities for the 
text of the Theban Recension, for it is n o mere copy hastily 
written for sale by a scribe, but a piece 
of work which bears 
upon every line of it the impress of care and knowledge 
; 
it 
is, 
moreover, the work 
of one man. 
Here and there the scribe 
has omitted lines, and two copies 
of one short Chapter 
(No. 
occur. 
This papyrus follows that of Nebseni in omitting the 
introductory hymns to Ra and Osiris and the great Judgment 
Scene, which are characteristic of the illustrated papyri of the 
last half 
of the XVIIIth dynasty and subsequent periods, and 
like most of the old papyri it ends with Chapters 
and 
150. 
It contains a considerable number of Chapters which have not 
hitherto been found in papyri of the Theban Recension, and 
also a large number 
of others which have only hitherto been 
known from a single document. 
It contains both versions 
of 
the 64th Chapter, and the various groups of Chapters relating 
to 
special subjects are singularly complete. T h e deceased Nu 
is frequently described as