Book of the Dead chapter 26

The composition is not attested in the Middle Kingdom; it first occurs among other Book of the Dead chapters on the coffin of the king's wife Mentuhotep of the Seventeenth Dynasty. However, the first two phrases of the second part does occur in the formulae written on the sides of Middle Kingdom coffins (Coffin Text 226, first part, in the numbering system assigned the coffin formulae by de Buck).

The version below follows the Book of the Dead of Nu (Lapp 1997: pl.13).

Transliteration

First part

r n rdit ib n wsir N n.f m Xrt-nTr
ib.i n.i m pr ibw
HAty.i n.i m pr HAtyw
iw n.i ib.i Htp.f im.i
n is wnm.i Satt nt wsir
Hr gs pfy iAby n gAy
xwxt m xd kt m xnt
nn hA.i r xwxt imt.k
iw n.i r.i r mdt rdwy.i r Smt
awy.i r sxrt xftyw.i

Translation

First part

Formula for giving the heart of the Osiris N to him in the underworld
My heart is mine in the house of hearts,
my chest is mine in the house of chests,
My heart is mine, and is content with me.
For I have not eaten the offering-loaf of Osiris
on that left side of the Basin.
A khukhet-boat is faring north, another faring south.
I can never fall down into the khukhet-boat that holds you.
My mouth is mine to speak, my legs are mine to walk,
my arms for overthrowing my enemies.

Transliteration

Second part

wn n.i aAwy tA
psS.n gb iry pat nTrw [..]wy.fy r.i
wn.f irty.i Sntt dwn.f rdwy.i qrf
srwd.n inpw mAsty.i wTs.i
ist nTrt
wnn.i m pt ir.tw wdt.n.i m Hwt-kA-ptH
rx.i m ib.i sxm.i m [...]
sxm.i m awy.i sxm.i m rdwy.i
iry.i mrt kA.i
nn xnri.tw [bA.i] Swt.i
Hr sbAw nw imnt Dt r nHH

Translation

Second part

The doors of earth are opened for me,
Geb, the gods' leader of the nobles, has spread his jaws at me,
opening my closed eyes, stretching my bent legs,
and Anubis has strengthened my knees that support me,
as does the goddess.
I exist in the sky, and what I ordered is done in Hutkaptah (=Memphis)
I have knowledge by my heart, I have power over [my breast],
I have power over my arms, I have power over my legs,
so that I may accomplish what my ka desires,
without [my soul] or my shade being repelled
at the gates of the west for ever and eternity.