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LITURGY OF FUNERARY OFFERINGS
place of Anubis in the performance of this office. In the text of Tetȧ, line 140, Seb, or Ḳeb, is said to give an offering to the king in his every form and in his every place,
, but when it is remembered that Seb was the great Earth-god, and the lord of all its products, this is not surprising. A few lines further on (line 150) we have: "Suten ḥetep ṭā. May Seb give an offering to this Tetȧ. May he give to thee offerings of all kinds in sets of four, and a setting forth in abundance of bread-cakes and vessels of beer, and bread of all kinds which thou lovest, and which are fair for thee before the God."
In Pepi II., line 680, we have the passage "Suten ṭā ḥetep. May Seb give these chosen haunches of beef and pert-kheru offerings to all the gods, so that they may cause every good thing to happen to Pepi Nefer-ka-Rā."
This passage is of considerable interest, for in it the words
occur, although
