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Im Buch des Gesetzes wird stélé (III:10) geschrieben. Gewöhnlich wird es stèle (aus dem Lateinischen) oder stela (aus dem Griechischen) buchstabiert.

Duaut hat Crowley fälschlich als Duant entziffert, der Fehler taucht auch im Liber Cordis Cincti Serpente Kap. II, Vers 2 auf.

Die Inschriften wurden von Crowley versifiziert und in das Liber Legis aufgenommen (I:14, III:37-38).

Wooden stèle overlain with stucco and painted, double-sided,
rounded at the top, bearing the number 666 in the catalogue.

OBVERSE

The upper scene is framed by a represantation of the goddes of the sky, Nout, whose body is elogated and whose arms are hanging down in such a manner that her fingertips touch the ground. Below is the winged disk of the sun with its name »Houdit, the great god, lord of the sky.«

The scene below shows a priest dressed in a panther skin standing before the god Harmakhis who is seated on his throne, beyond which there is the insignia of the West. The caption for the god reads: »Ra-Hoor-khut, chief of the gods«; that of the worshipper reads: »The deceased, prophet of Mentou, lord of Thebes, the one for whom the doors of the sky are opened in Thebes, Ankh-f-n-khonsu.«

Behind the priest is a table of offerings under which is written »bread, water, cattle and fowl.«

The lower text is translated as follows: »The deceased, the prophet of Mentou, lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, true-of-voice, says: O sublime one! I adore the greatness of your spirits, o formidable soul, who inspires terror of himself among gods. Appearing on his great throne, he travels the path of the soul, of the spirit, and of the body, having received the light, being equipped, I have made my path towards the place in which Ra, Toum, Khepra and Hathor are; I, the deceased priest of Mentou, lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, son of a person of the same rank, Bes-n-maut, and of the priestess of Ammon-ra, the mistress of the house Ta-nech.«


REVERSE

Inscription in blue sunk into a white background: »The deceased, prophet of Mentou, lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, true-of-voice, says: ‚O my heart of my mother, O heart which I had while I was on earth, do not rise up against me in witness, do not oppose me as a judge, do not charge me in the presence of the great god, lord of the West, because I have joined the land to the great West when I was flourishing on earth!’ The deceased, priest of Thebes, Ankh-f-n-khonsu, true-of-voice, says: ‚O, you who only has one arm, who shines in the moon, the deceased Ankh-f-n-khonsu has left multitudes and rejoined those who are in the light, he has opened the dwelling-place of the stars (the Duaut); now then, the deceased Ankh-f-n-khonsu has gone forth by day in order to do everything that pleased him upon earth, among the living’.«