[25.] King Septa
of the 1st dynasty, who has been identified with the Usaphais of Manetho.
The other account of the discovery of the chapter is thus described in the rubric of the second recension.
This chapter was discovered at Hermopolis upon a slab of alabaster, inscribed in blue, under the feet of this god [Osiris], at the time of King Menkarā, the victorious, by the royal prince Hortâtâf, when he was journeying for the purpose of inspecting the temples ...[[79]] and he carried off the slab in the royal chariot, when he saw what was on it.
The rubric farther prescribes that a scarab of hard stone encircled and purified with gold[[80]] should be placed upon the place of the heart of the deceased, and that the ‘words of power’ contained in the 30th chapter, “Heart mine of my mother,” etc., should be repeated. The gold leaf or plate has been found on some scarabs, but has disappeared from nearly all.
The ‘Ritual of Parma,’ which speaks of two metals,
