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Accurate reckoning. The entrance into the knowledge of all existing things and all obscure secrets. This book was copied in the year 33, in the fourth month of the inundation season, under the majesty of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, ꜥA-user-Rêꜥ, endowed with life, in likeness to writings of old made in the time of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Ne-maꜥet-Rêꜥ. It is the scribe Aꜥh-mosè who copies this writing.