This is one of the chapters found on the sarcophagus of Horhotep. It is also inscribed on a statue, now in the Berlin Museum, belonging to the early part of the XVIIIth dynasty (Denkm., III, 25 h and k). These authorities do not give the title found in the papyri. The allusions to Annu are confined to the earliest text, which somewhat differs from the later authorities, and finishes sooner than they do. Cf. also Teta, l. 331.
[1.] Hat-ka-Ptah is the name of Memphis, but as in so many other places it is not the earthly city which is meant. M. Naville has pointed out that the words “in the Netherworld” are added in the papyrus of Nebseni.
[2.] Bread and beer are not mentioned in the earliest text, which has other important variants. The latest texts have the verb
, wash, make clean, purify, of which
on the Berlin statue and the Theban papyri may fairly be considered an older form. But Horhotep has