This Chapter begins with a general title applying to 163-5, and probably to other ones not included in the papyrus of Turin: “Chapters brought from another book, an addition to the coming forth by day.” This means that these chapters were not considered as belonging to the
“the coming forth by day,” the original Book of the Dead, which in old times ended with Chapter 149, and later on with Chapter 162.
The vignettes represent the figures described in the rubric for which the chapter was written.
Dr. Pleyte first discovered that this Chapter is a kind of dialogue, consisting of words spoken by the god, and a prayer addressed to him in favour of the deceased. The strange names which occur in the text lead us here also to Africa, since it is said of the deceased that he resides in Apt of Nubia, Napata.