Chap. XXXVI. THE CHAPTER OF DRIVING AWAY APSIIAIT. From the Papyrus of Nu.

Vignette : This Chapter is without a vignette in the Papyrus of Nu,
but in others containing the Theban Recension (see Naville, op . cit ., Ba. I .
Bl . 49) the vignettes either shew the deceased spearing a beetle, or stand-
ing, with a knife in one hand and a staff in the other, before a pedestal
upon which stands the insect Apshait, which has been identified with the
cockroach . The apshait is probably the beetle which is often found
crushed between the bandages of poorly made mummies, or even inside
the body itself, where it has forced its wav in search of food .
Text : (1) THE CHAPTER OF DRIVING AWAY APSHAIT. Osiris
Nu, the chancellor-in-chief, triumphant, saith : -    (2)

"Depart from me, O thou that hast lips which gnaw, for I am
"Khnemu, the lord of Peshennu,r and [I] bring the words of
"the gods to Ra, and I report (3) [my] message to the lord
"thereof."

The Source: The Book oDead, the Chapters of Coming Forth by Day
Translated into English by E. A. Wallis Budge, Litt.D., D.Lit
London, 1898.

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