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The Legend Of Osiris.
living.[10]
[1. ###. The text of this work, transcribed into hieroglyphics, was published, with a Latin translation, by Brugsch, under
the title, Sai an Sinsin sive Aber Metempsychosis veterum Aegyptiorum, Berlin, 1851; and an English translation of the
same work, but made from a Paris MS., was given by p. J. de Horrack in Records of the Past, 1st series, vol., iv., p. 121 ff.
See also Birch, Facsimiles of Two Papyri, London, 1863, p. 3; Devéria, Catalogue des MSS. Égyptiens, Paris, 1874, pp.
130 ff., where several copies of this work are described.
2. The hieratic text of this work is published with a French translation by p. J. de Horrack, Les Lamentations d'Isis et de
Nephthys, Paris, 1886.
3. A hieroglyphic transcript of these works, with an English translation, was given in Archælogia, vol. iii., London, 1891.
4. What Devéria says with reference to the Book of Respirations applies to the whole class: "Toutefois, on remarque dans
cet écrit une tendance à la doctrine de la résurrection du corps plus marquée que dans les compositions antérieures"
(Catalogue, p. 13).
5. ###. Festival Songs, iv., 33.
6. ###. Ibid., viii., 21, ix., 8.
7. Litanies of Seker, col. xviii.
8. ###. Festival Songs, vi., 1.
9. ###. Ibid., iii., 18.
10. ###. Ibid., ix., 26.]
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