Of The Ink-Pot And Palette

[From the Papyrus of Nu (British Museum No. 10,477, sheet 12).]

THE CHAPTER OF PRAYING FOR AN INK-POT AND FOR A PALETTE. The
chancellor-in-chief, Nu, triumphant, saith:

“Hail, aged god, who dost behold thy divine father and who art the
guardian of the book of Thoth, [behold I have come; I am endowed with
glory, I am endowed with strength, I am filled with might, and I am
supplied with the books of Thoth], and I have brought [them to enable me]
to pass through the god Aker who dwelleth in Set. I have brought the
ink-pot and the palette as being the objects which are in the hands of
Thoth; hidden is that which is in them. Behold me in the character of a
scribe! I have brought the offal of Osiris, and I have written thereon. I
have made (_i.e._, copied) the words of the great and beautiful god each
day fairly. O Heru-khuti, thou didst order me and I have made (_i.e._,
copied) what is right and true, and I do bring it unto thee each day.”