festival."[1] Elsewhere we find that the king is asked for the ḥetep, and Anubis for the burial, and Osiris is to give the offerings of bread, beer, and cakes, thus:--
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But it is not said of what the ḥetep which the king is asked to give is to consist. In another text the king is called upon to give ḥetep, and Anubis to give the burial as before, and Osiris of Ṭaṭṭu to make the deceased to advance happily over the beautiful roads of the Other World, and Khenti Ȧmenti is to provide him with the funerary offerings.[3] Still there is no explanation of what the king's ḥetep is to consist.
From many passages in texts of the Ancient Empire it is clear that offerings of food were given to the dead, chiefly by Anubis. Thus in Tetȧ, line 387, it is said, "Ȧnpu Khenti Ȧmenti giveth thee an offering, thy thousands of bread cakes, thy thousands of vessels of beer, thy thousands of vases of oil, thy thousands of oxen, thy thousands of changes of apparel, thy thousands of bulls; one cuts the throat for thee of the Smen goose, one shoots for thee the Therp goose."
