CHAPTER CLXVI.

_Chapter of the Pillow._

Awake! thy sufferings are allayed, _N._ Thou art awaked when thy head is

above the horizon. Stand up, thou art triumphant by means of what has

been done to thee.

Ptah has struck down thine enemies. It has been ordered what should be

done to thee. Thou(1.) art Horus, the son of Hathor, the flame born of a

flame(2.), to whom his head has been restored after it had been cut off.

Thy head will never be taken from thee henceforth.

Thy head will never be carried away.

NOTES.

With Chapter 166 begins a series of chapters which are not in the

Todtenbuch, and which have been collected from various papyri. For most

of them there is only one text, therefore the translation is often very

uncertain.

This Chapter, which is taken from London 9900 (_Aa_), seems to be only a

variant, with a few additional sentences, of Chapter 43, “Chapter

whereby the head of a person is not severed from him in the

Netherworld.” It alludes to the reconstitution of the body of the

deceased, and to providing him with all his sepulchral equipment.

Head-rests like that which is represented in the vignette are often

found in the tombs with the coffins already at the time of the XIth

dynasty.