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the Son of Nut; Son of Re, Ramesses II, given life; who makes monuments in the House of Horus, his august father. Now, (as for) His Majesty, L.P.H., his mind was alert in seeking out every (kind of) excellent deed, in performing benefactions his father, Horus, Lord of Meha, in making for him his Temple of Million Years, it being excavated in the Mountain of Meha. Never had (any)one done the like previously, only the Son of Amun, lord of renown in all lands. He carried off numerous workpeople as the captures of his strong arm from every foreign country. He filled the estates of the gods with the children of Syria (Retenu), when the Royal Cupbearer (wb3 nswt) Ramesses-Asha-hebu-sed was charged to reorganize the Land of Kush anew, in the mighty name of His Majesty, L.P.H. He says: “Hail to you, O King of Egypt, Sun of the Nine Bows! There are none rebellious in your time, your land is at peace. Your father Amun has decreed for you every land under your feet, he has given to you, the South like the North, the West and the East, and the isles in the midst of the Green Sea.’ Text edition: Rosellini, I. I monumenti dell’Egitto e della Nubia (Band 4,1, Atlas): Monumenti storici. Niccolo Capurro e C., Pisa, 1832, tav. cxiv [I] Champollion, J-F. Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie. Tome I. Belles-lettres, Paris, 1835, 1-2, PL IX Lepsius, C. R. Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Textband V. J. C. Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1913, 175. Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions. Historical and Biographical. Vol. III. B. H. Blackwell, Oxford, 1980, 203. Translation: Kitchen, K. A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated, Translations. Vol. III. Ramesses II, His Contemporaries. Blackwell, Oxford, 2001, 141-142. Publication: Champollion, J-F. Monuments de l'Égypte et de la Nubie. Tome I. Belles-lettres, Paris, 1835, 1-2, PL IX Porter, B. — Moss, R. L. B. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Vol. VII: Nubia, the Deserts, and Outside Egypt. Griffith Institut, Oxford, 1975, 117.
