Page 354 [354]
An offering which the king gives <to> Amon, who is inside Heneketankh that he may
grant life, prosperity, health and acuteness in front of the lord of the Two Lands to the
ka of the follower of the king in every foreign land, favoured of the good god, the royal
wb3, Neferperet.
On the back-pillar of the statue
(1) jn.n wb3 nswt (2) Nfr-prt jst sw (3) m Sms.wt hm=f (4) hr h3s.t Rtnw jh.w n D3hj (5) jd.t
4 jd.t n.t Kmt 2 (6) k3 1 dmd 7 hsmn mhr (7) r rdj.t st r hw.t n.t hh.w (8) m rnp.wt Hnkt-nh
sn=f (9) [Jmn-|m-mh-jb m sw=(10)sn s3=f Dsr-I3-R r (11) Bj.t mhr wnn.sn (12) r-ht=j m
p3ÿ=j hrw (13) n nh | hr=s jmj-r3 rwjj.t (14) Nb-snj jj hr=s s§ nswt (15) Jmn-ms ddd.wt
m hm n stp(-s3) (16) ‘nh wa3 snb jw=w r-ht=k m hrw=(17)k n nh jr m-ht j3w n=k (18) jmjj
Jw=w m s3n 83 jww (19) njww m rdj st r-hnw jmj-r3 jh.w (20) jr jw.t) fj nb r mad.t m rdj
Isdm!.tw.(2I)n.sn m h3 nb n nswt m rdj th.tw (22) r jr.t h.t nb(.t)
(1) What the royal wb3 (2) Neferperet has brought while he was (3) in the campaigns of
His Majesty (4) in the country of Rinw: cattle of Dhy, (5) 4 cows; 2 cows of Egypt; (6) 1
bull; total: 7; a bronze milk-jar; (7) in order to give them to the Temple of Millions (8)
of Years Endowed with Life. His brother (9) Amenmehib is their guardian; (10) his son
Djeserkare is to (11) carry the milk-jars. They are (12) under my authority during my day
(13) of life. The overseer of the gate Nebseny enters on account of it; (14) the king’s scribe
Amenmose comes on account of it. (15) What is said in the Residence (16) 1.p-h.: "They
are under your authority during your day (17) of life. After your own old age, (18) they
will go from son to son; from heir (19) to heir. Do not give them to the stable of an over¬
seer of cattle. (20) As for anyone who will come to argue: do not let one listen (21) to them
in any office of the king; do not let one encroach (22) upon the doing of anything.’’°°
Text edition:
Legrain, G. Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. N° 42001-42138.
Statues et statuettes de rois et de particuliers. Vol I. Institut français d'archéologie orientale,
Cairo, 1906a, 69-71, pl. Ixxi
Legrain, G. Répertoire généalogique et onomastique du Musée du Caire. Monuments de la
XVII et de la XVIII’ dynastie. Société anonyme des arts graphiques, Geneva, 1908,
92-94, No. 170.
Sethe, K. Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Band 1-4, Heft 1-16. Urkunden des Agyptischen Alter¬
tums. IV. Abteilung. J. C. Hinrichs, Berlin, 1927-1930, 602-603, 1019-1021.
9% Translation is after Haring, 1997, 146.