I am with Horus on the day of the festivals of Osiris, at the making of offerings and oblations, namely, on the festival which is celebrated on the sixth day of the month, and on the day of the Tenat festival in Anu. I enter in among and I come forth from the Flame-gods on the day of the destruction of the Sebau fiends in Sekhem. I am with Horus as the protector of the left shoulder of Osiris, the dweller in Sekhem. I unbolt the door of the Shetait Shrine in Ra-stau. I open the hidden water-springs for the ablutions of Urt-ab. I am with Horus on the day of dressing Teshtesh.

Ra commanded Thoth to prove true the words of Osiris before his enemies what was commanded, let that be done for me by Thoth. I am with the mourners the women who tear out their hair and make lament for Osiris in Taui-Rekhti, proving true the words of Osiris before his enemies.

My mother conceived me in Tetu, and gave birth to me in Tetu. I am Thoth who proved the truth of the words of Osiris before his enemies on the day of the weighing of words in the great House of the Prince, who dwelleth in Anu. I am thy kinsman Horus, I have fought on thy behalf, I have come to thee for thy name's sake. I am those gods who were the children of the goddess Nut, who hacked in pieces the enemies of Osiris, and who bound in fetters the legion of Sebau devils on his behalf. I am the great god by the side of the divine boat, I have fought for thee, I am one of those gods, those divine chiefs, who proved the truth-speaking of Osiris before his enemies on the day of the weighing of words. The Osiris Ani, the Osiris the scribe Ani saith:- Homage to thee, O Bull of Amentet, Thoth the king of eternity is with me. THEY SHALL BE RECITED ON THE DAY OF THE FUNERAL, ENTERING IN AFTER COMING FORTH. Faulkner (1998).THE CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY HERE BEGIN THE CHAPTERS OF COMING FORTH BY DAY, AND THE SONGS OF PRAISING AND GLORIFYING WHICH ARE TO BE RECITED FOR 'COMING FORTH' AND FOR ENTERING INTO KHERT-NETER, AND THE SPELLS WHICH ARE TO BE SAID IN BEAUTIFUL AMENTET. More recent scholarship is: The Egyptian Book of the Dead: The Book of Going Forth by Day, The First Authentic Presentation of the Complete 'Papyrus of Ani', Introduction and commentary by Dr. Wallis Budge's The Book of the Dead: The Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, the Egyptian Text, with interlinear transliteration and translation, a running translation, introduction etc. In 1890 the British Museum issued a large folio color facsimile of the thirty-seven sheets entitled The Book of the Dead: Facsimile of the Papyrus of Ani in the British Museum, with an introduction by Peter le Page Renouf. Before shipping the manuscript to England Budge cut the seventy-eight foot scroll into thirty-seven sheets of nearly equal size, damaging the scroll's integrity.

Wallis Budge for the collection of the British Museum where it remains today.

The papyrus excavated from the tomb of Ani in Thebes, and was purchased in 1888 by Sir E. The text usually contained declarations and spells to help the deceased in their afterlife. It is among the most richly illustrated of all surviving copies of the Book of the Dead, which was also called the 'Book of Going Forth by Day'. The Papyrus of Ani was written in cursive hieroglyphs and illustrated with color miniatures in the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt, c.

Papyrus of ani