on the earth forever and ever.

He is towed (like) Osiris into the Great Pool of Khons.
When he has retaken possession of his heart(683)
the Book of Respirations is concealed in (the coffin).
It is (covered) with writing upon Suten,
both inside and outside (and)
placed underneath his left arm,
evenly with his heart;...
When the Book has been made for him
then he breathes with the souls of the gods forever and ever.(684)

It is finished.

THE EPIC OF PENTA-OUR

Translated by C. W. Goodwin, M.A.

The commencement of the epic of Penta-our is wanting in the papyrus, and
the end is also defective, but the date of the composition and the name of
the writer have fortunately escaped. It appears to have been written in
the ninth year of the King whose valor it celebrates. Champollion saw this
papyrus, and had formed some notion of the nature of its contents, but to
M. de Rouge belongs the honor of having first given a complete translation
of it. This was published in the "_Revue Contemporaine_," 1856, p. 389.
The scene of the exploit lies in the neighborhood of the city of
Katesh,(685) the capital of the Hittites, which stood on the banks of a
river named Anrata (or Aranta, as it is sometimes written), perhaps the
Syrian Orontes. It appears, from the sculptures and inscriptions of
Ibsamboul and the Theban Ramesseum, that Rameses II, in the fifth year of
his reign, made an expedition into Asia to suppress a revolt of the
Asiatic tribes headed by the Prince of Heth. Arrived near Katesh, upon the
south side of the city, certain wandering Arabs came to inform him that
the forces of the Hittites had retired toward the south, to the land of
the Khirbou. These Arabs were, however, in the service of the enemy, and
were sent with the intention of entrapping the Egyptians, the fact being
that the Hittites and their allies were assembled in force to the north of
the town. Rameses fell into the trap, and advanced to the northwest of
Katesh while the body of his army proceeded to the south. Shortly after
two Hittite spies were caught and brought to the King, and under the
pressure of the bastonnade, confessed the true state of the affair. The
prince of the Hittites had in the meantime executed a movement to the
south of the city, and thus the King was cut off from the body of his
troops, and only escaped destruction by the dashing exploit which his
admiring subje