Davies, Norman de Garis: Two Ramesside tombs at Thebes (New York, 1927)

THE TOMB OF USERH^T

ministered to by two priests, and mourned by one or two relations. The The steia

appended text runs, "A ritual offering to Amen-Re, to Atum, to Harakhti,

to Geb, to Osiris, to Isis, Lady of the West, to Hathor, residing in the

necropolis, to Anubis, foremost in the hall of the god, to the company

of the gods ... [to the gods] and goddesses there, the great ones of the

necropolis, to the fane of the south, to the fane of the north, to the Sektet

bark, to the Macdet bark, to the gods who are in heaven and earth; that

they may grant cooling waters (?) and the scent of the breezes, that the

soul may not ever suffer repulse, that thy (sic) name may be called and

be forthcoming at every festival continually, that thou mayest see Re

at dawn and follow Sokar of Rostau, that thou mayest see the gods on

thrones, that Re may give thee passage in the Sektet bark, that the West

may receive thee, that libations be poured on the offerings, that (thou)

receive the offerings of a god, and that Hapi give thee all manner of good

food—thousands of bread, beer, oxen, fowl, thread, linen, fat, incense,

wine, milk, greens, fragrant flowers, . . . [for the ka of] the high-priest

of [Akheperkere, Userhet], the justified one. He saith, 'My rank (?) was

that of a web-priest (?) ... the shrine of the god, high-priest of . . .

[born of the house-]mistress, [the singer of] Mont, lord of On, Ta-usret.'

[His wife], the house-mistress, [Hatjshepsut. His son, Raremwia. His

son, Huy. His son,

The ceiling inscriptions follow ordinary models (Plate XVIII, G). Ceiling
(i) North side. "[A ritual offering to . . .]; to Hathor, regent of the
necropolis on the west of Thebes; to Isis the great, the divine mother;
and to all the gods of To-joser; that they may grant entrance and exit
in the necropolis, and that my mouth may be full of food of thy (sic)
giving before Onnofer to eternity."1

(2) South side. "A ritual offering to Re-Harakhti-Atum, lord of the
two sides of On; (to) Khons in Thebes, fair of setting; (to) Thot, lord of
Hermonthis, adjudicator of Justice for the company of gods2; that they

1 This and the other two ceiling inscriptions break off short without naming the recipient of the divine
benefits, as is the rule in all such texts.

2 The two moon-gods, Khons and Thot, are associated so closely at times as almost to become a com-
posite god: see Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, II, p. 37; Lanzone, Dizionario di mitologia egizia, PI. CCCXLI.

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