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TEXTS OF BIOGRAPHICAL IMPORT
(i5) [still young] ... on their supplies . . . voice he announces to a biographic-
al record
them (16) . . . just (?) of heart, making laws ... in the midst of the
province of South Egypt, governor in1 (17) . . . attached to the temple of
Nekhen (?), temple-father, beloved of the god, honored in the palace,
[receiving] favors at court (life, welfare, and health to it!), saying
(18) [what is true] ... [0 Puyemre, born of] the chief foster-mother
Neferyah! Thou ascendest to heaven, sailest the watery firmament, and
consortest with the stars (19) . . . foremost of seat [in] the Sektet boat,
[thou smitest for] Re (?) his enemy (?); thou seest . . . (20) . . . [thou
salutest] the sun's disk at dawn ... his [rays?] on thy face, thy spirit
(?) becomes ... (21) ... [Puyemre saith 'He appointed me] more-
over (?) chief web-priest . . . (22) ... in my charge. I entered heaven2
. . . (23) ... I gave utterance (?) regarding . . . (25) ... I followed
[my lord through] the remote valleys of Syria (Retnu) (26) . . . [when]
he [made] slaughter among them, [when] remnants which were left
were flying past him ... (27) ... [when he penetrated to] all the
boundaries (?) of their lands, still I was of his train, being (28) . . .
[I was rewarded with] vessels (?) of silver and gold. I beheld, too, the
royal victories which His Majesty gained in the land of Tikhsi (?)3 (29)
... to administer it, for I was a man4 ... a leader upright of heart,
a chief citizen and man of affairs (rhh ?) (3o) . . . the ritual chamber
(pr dwl.t ?).
'"Now I [did] thus on earth that my body might be interred in my
plot (3i) [in the necropolis] . . . [make] a hotpedens5 offering on your part
2 "Heaven" is perhaps the poetical expression for the roofed temple.
3 Dr. Griffith suggests *S. |fl ^ "the land of the Negroes." This is not unlikely, as Thothmes'
campaigns in Nubia were later in his reign and the southern tribute is shown on the adjoining wall here.
But there is rather scanty room for this word and we have this very close parallel in the contemporary
biography of Amenemhab «/$^^ — >^M2 t^T^TI^P^" <Sethe' ^kunden, IV,
8q3). Tikhsi (near Aleppo?) is mentioned again under Amenhotep II (Breasted, A. R. I, §§. 587, 644, 65o,
797>-
*0ne would like to supply here "a man of 54 years of age" from PI. LXVI, 1. 29.
6A contracted form of ihc=^=,(hotp (r)dy nisut, formerly read suten dy hotep) "an offering which
the king of Upper Egypt gives." Its meaning too had now been reduced to "a ritual offering" or some
such general term.
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(i5) [still young] ... on their supplies . . . voice he announces to a biographic-
al record
them (16) . . . just (?) of heart, making laws ... in the midst of the
province of South Egypt, governor in1 (17) . . . attached to the temple of
Nekhen (?), temple-father, beloved of the god, honored in the palace,
[receiving] favors at court (life, welfare, and health to it!), saying
(18) [what is true] ... [0 Puyemre, born of] the chief foster-mother
Neferyah! Thou ascendest to heaven, sailest the watery firmament, and
consortest with the stars (19) . . . foremost of seat [in] the Sektet boat,
[thou smitest for] Re (?) his enemy (?); thou seest . . . (20) . . . [thou
salutest] the sun's disk at dawn ... his [rays?] on thy face, thy spirit
(?) becomes ... (21) ... [Puyemre saith 'He appointed me] more-
over (?) chief web-priest . . . (22) ... in my charge. I entered heaven2
. . . (23) ... I gave utterance (?) regarding . . . (25) ... I followed
[my lord through] the remote valleys of Syria (Retnu) (26) . . . [when]
he [made] slaughter among them, [when] remnants which were left
were flying past him ... (27) ... [when he penetrated to] all the
boundaries (?) of their lands, still I was of his train, being (28) . . .
[I was rewarded with] vessels (?) of silver and gold. I beheld, too, the
royal victories which His Majesty gained in the land of Tikhsi (?)3 (29)
... to administer it, for I was a man4 ... a leader upright of heart,
a chief citizen and man of affairs (rhh ?) (3o) . . . the ritual chamber
(pr dwl.t ?).
'"Now I [did] thus on earth that my body might be interred in my
plot (3i) [in the necropolis] . . . [make] a hotpedens5 offering on your part
2 "Heaven" is perhaps the poetical expression for the roofed temple.
3 Dr. Griffith suggests *S. |fl ^ "the land of the Negroes." This is not unlikely, as Thothmes'
campaigns in Nubia were later in his reign and the southern tribute is shown on the adjoining wall here.
But there is rather scanty room for this word and we have this very close parallel in the contemporary
biography of Amenemhab «/$^^ — >^M2 t^T^TI^P^" <Sethe' ^kunden, IV,
8q3). Tikhsi (near Aleppo?) is mentioned again under Amenhotep II (Breasted, A. R. I, §§. 587, 644, 65o,
797>-
*0ne would like to supply here "a man of 54 years of age" from PI. LXVI, 1. 29.
6A contracted form of ihc=^=,(hotp (r)dy nisut, formerly read suten dy hotep) "an offering which
the king of Upper Egypt gives." Its meaning too had now been reduced to "a ritual offering" or some
such general term.
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