: “More beautiful [my] splendour (colour, hair or veil) than Yesterday.” None of these readings seem very attractive.
[8.] Here follows the identification of the limbs of the deceased person with those of various gods. There are many similar texts belonging to all the periods of the Egyptian religion. For the Pyramid Texts, see e.g. Unas, line 218 &c., ib. line 570, &c., Pepi I, line 565, &c. Compare the Coffin of Amamu, pl. XXIV, line 11, &c., Naville, Litanie de Râ, p. 96, and Golenischeff, Metternichstele, lines 9-35.
[9.] Strength
, literally a wall or tower, like the מגדל־עז of Ps. XI, 4.