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The manuscript’s visual representation describes the Sun-god Re’s nocturnal journey through the Tenth and Eleventh Hours of the night. The treatise’s visual model resembles the prototype established that decorates the 18th Dynasty royal burial chambers in the Valley of the Kings. However, some deities are missing (deities 701-702, 704-707, 718-732 and 747-748 in the Tenth Hour and deities 759-763, 770, 774, 786-797, 802-803 and 817-818 in the Eleventh Hour). The treatise’s structure consists of three horizontal registers representing Re in his nocturnal shape as a ram-headed deity travelling on the solar boat through the last netherworld regions. In the Tenth Hour, the top register’s first vignette shows the deity pan-irw (Who acts clever) with a beetle, bearing the oval-shaped representation of the Netherworld itself (i.e.: the Duat), while the following episode (partly missing) presents the healing of the Sun-god’s eyes. The left eye, mann.wy (The double-coiled), emerges from two snakes that are between two deities - one bearing the red crown and the other (now lost) bearing the white crown (symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt), whereas the right eye, sdfy.t (The wrapped (staff?)) (now lost too), comes out from the top of the hieroglyphic sign for “god”. In the following scene (which is in two fragments), excerpts of eight deities, who represent the goddess Sekhmet’s unpredictable nature (both destructive and healing), head towards the mummy-shaped canine-headed god iwf-fA-ir.t=f (Flesh who carries his eye) to examine, heal and protect the Sun-god’s eye he bears in his hands. The middle register presents the solar barque and its crew: we see four deities at the vessel’s stern, while the texts state excerpts from the following episodes, namely The bA of Sokar and The bA of Osiris. The bottom register presents fragments of one of the Netherworld’s merciful feature in which Horus’ hypostasis uses magic spells to assist several drowned corpses. This scene shows how the divine intervention of Horus can intercede for those who do not have the required funeral ritual arrangements as they have died an unfortunate or violent death or their bodies are missing or have drowned (like Osiris). In the Eleventh Hour, the top register’s first vignette presents six deities guarding and protecting the Sun-god’s mysteries, while three goddesses, riding double snakes, bring Re’s bidding in the sky to fruition. In the middle register, two crowned serpents resembling Isis and Nephthys, and four deities bearing Neith's shapes accompany the Sun-god’s path through this region. The bottom register presents one of the Netherworld’s apotropaic features set in the western desert, where three anthropomorphic deities punish Osiris’ enemies. The scribe also places an anonymous fourth figure behind Hry-wHA.wt=f (He above his kettles), probably a representation of the deceased itself. On the manuscript’s right-hand side, the etiquette shows the deceased, Ankhefenkhonsu, offering funerary supplies and lotus flowers to Osiris.