XXII. The Stairs or . This amulet is usually made of glazed faïence, but the use of it is unknown to me. In the vignette of the nioth chapter of the Book of the Dead it is figured placed in a boat (Naville, Das Todtenbuch, Bl. CXXIII.); in the 22nd chapter the deceased says, “I am Osiris, lord of Re-stau (the passages of the tomb), and of those who are at the top of the stairs ”; and in the 85th chapter the deceased says, “ I am the lord of the stairs, I have made my nest on the borders of the sky.”