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EL BEKSHEH.
4. d ne heme......die nehem-nd net-d ra aim em a hert
mert net per seten nuk gert khenert-cs rh aha-es
nehat-es
5. em shedet sha du se-anM-nd si seshemt or zer-es em
thesu
6. nu ta du en un uru-es md shereru-es en \Jier~\
7. Men-en Khemenu Unu em mdtet du senesh-nd
8. mezt-d ne bu neb nuk gert hau her nefer
9. bat zefay-d men/ dntiu
10. smay ne hru nefer' Zehutlnekht mes ne Zehutihetep
11. hnkh zet er neheh
4................ I saved my city on the day of plunder
from the painful terrors of the house of the king.
Moreover I was its fortress on the day of its combat,
its refuge
5. in embankment and marsh. 1 made it to live, it
being' regulated (by me) throughout in orderly
arrangement (or with allotments)
6. of landj where there had been none, its great ones as
well as its little ones, not within the memory of
7. Khemenu and Unu likewise. I opened
8. my house to everybody. Moreover I was exceeding
in goodness,
9. marvellous in provisions, loved for frankincense,
10. a partaker in a holiday, Tehutinekht born of Tehuti-
hetep,
11. living for ever to eternity."
2. REBATING TO NEHERA BORN OB KEMA.
GRAFFITO XL (See Pl. xxiii.)
1. Renpet vi. hd k/ierp nesti mer hen neter her tep da ne
Tint, re Mi/ seten hat qemdu Neherd mes ne Kemd
qerehet sept Met ta pen remt nebt usesh nezes
3. qen ...... zamu sa dut-ef ne est nebt 4. neb
Mepsh da merut uba ra ne medu hena-ef zed-en
seten 5. ha-ef ref die hru ne nezut ra aha-en ta
pen er der-ef Mer seMer 6. neb zedy-f sa Zehuti
ne un mak mes ne Sesht (?) sat (?) Ra (?) utet
7. ka Maat nehem Mart alia mar 8. qres dau
shed neMen se-hnkh net-ef em 9. thesu seshem-es
du nen un erde-nes nen se-then dm-es uru-es
10. md shereru-es per-en henu-ef er zed nem
..................... 11. mend-es se-hetept em haut
1. "Year vi, the Aa-prince, regulator of the two thrones,
superintendent of priests, great chief of the Hare
nome, known of the king, fore-front of the South,
Nehera born of Kema.
2. The clan-head (?) (qerehet) remaining in this land
when all men were base and the commoner 3. was
strong2 ...... the young men, careful of his goings
in every place: 4. possessor of prowess, great of
love, opening the mouth (affable or swift of retort ?)
to him who speaks with him : one of whom the
king saith 5. ' would that he would come on the
day of conference, then would this whole land follow
every plan 6. that he might advise'': a son of
Thoth of very truth, born of Seshyt (?) daughter (?)
of Ra (?) 7. engendered of the bull-husband (?) of
Truth: rescuing the widow, saving the oppressed,
8. burying the aged, nurturing the child: making
his city live with 9. allotments-of-land (?) : its
guide (?) when there was none who gave to it, not
making distinctions in it, its great ones 10. like
its young ones. Plis neighbours (?) turned out to say,
'who [could have brought it to] 11. anchorage?'
satisfied with fields and years of allotments (?) :
1 The same phrases in hieroglyphics, above, p. 26.
This is word for word the same as Gr. I. 3, but the translation in both cases is uncertain. In other difficult passages
conjectural renderings and inconsistencies will be obvious.
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