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In Pepi I., line 83, we have: ". May Anubis give an offering: thy thousand bread-cakes, thy thousand vessels of beer, thy thousand vessels of purifying fluid which cometh forth from the Usekh chamber, thy thousand pleasant things, thy thousand oxen, thy thousand things to eat, thy gifts of thy heart. The palm tree followeth thee, and the mulberry tree presenteth its head for thee in that which Anubis doeth for thee."

In the Vth and VIth Dynasties Osiris is sometimes regarded as the giver of gifts of food,, and at a later period he generally takes the