When W.M. Flinders Petrie excavated the Palace of Apries he uncovered a limestone block with inscriptions on both sides. This block was published in 1909 and is now kept in the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. Bernard Bothmer first compared the Cambridge block to another one kept in the Brooklyn Museum. He emphasized that they correspond closely and that the representations differ only minutely. After Bothmer’s publication, both artifacts were considered as originally parts of a single structure. In this contribution the function of the monument of which this block was originally a part will be investigated. The proposed interpretation gives rise to a new reading of religious representations of the ancient Egyptians. It is not about overcoming the barriers of the underworld, but about the practical use of spirits. The texts tell us about the Egyptian belief in affiliating oneself with the spirit of an important person for using it for personal purposes.

当 WM Flinders Petrie 挖掘 Apries 宫时，他发现了一块两侧刻有铭文的石灰石块。这个街区于 1909 年出版，现在保存在剑桥的菲茨威廉博物馆。伯纳德·博默首先将剑桥街区与布鲁克林博物馆中保存的另一个街区进行了比较。他强调，它们密切对应，而且表述只有细微的差别。在 Bothmer 发表之后，这两件文物最初都被认为是一个单一结构的一部分。在这个贡献中，将研究该街区最初是其一部分的纪念碑的功能。拟议的解释引起了对古埃及人宗教表征的新解读。这不是关于克服冥界的障碍，而是关于精神的实际应用。