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Plates VII.-X.
4. The utchat facing to the left above a pylon (to illustrate line 73).
5. The cow (Fig. 1) Mehurt maat Ra, "Mehurt, the eye of Ra," with a flail and having on her head a disk
and horns and round her neck the collar and menat (to illustrate lines 75-79).[1]
6. A funereal chest from which emerge the head of Ra, and his two arms and hands, each holding the
emblem of life. The chest, which is called aat Abtu, "the district of Abydos," or the "burial place of the
East," has upon its side figures of the four children of
[1. In the papyrus of Hunefer (British Museum papyrus No. 9902) the god Thoth is represented offering the utchat to the
Mehurt cow. (Fig. 2.)
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Horus who protect the intestines of Osiris or the deceased. On the right stand Tuamautef and
Qebhsennuf, and on the left Mestha and Hapi (to illustrate lines 82, 83).
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