creator = Mark-Jan Nederhof
name = Nederhof
labelname = Ne
created = 2015-08-07
modified = 2015-08-07
version = 
scheme = 
language = eng
upload = 
email = 
password = 
hieroglyphic = ignored
transliteration = shown
translation = shown
lexical = ignored

Transliteration and translation of the stela of Hormeni, in Florence,
following the transcription of Sethe (1927), number 27 (pp. 76-77).

For published translations, see 
Breasted (1906), pp. 20-21, §§ 47-48;
Sethe (1914), number 27 (p. 40).

###

J.H. Breasted. <i>Ancient Records of Egypt -- Volume II</i>. The
University of Chicago Press, 1906.

K. Sethe. <i>Urkunden der 18. Dynastie -- übersetzt, Volume I</i>.
Hinrichs, Leipzig, 1914.

K. Sethe. <i>Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Volume I</i>. Hinrichs,
Leipzig, 1927.

###

<1> Htp-Dj-nsw ^Hr ^nxn 
;
<1> A royal offering of Horus of Hierakonpolis, 

^wsjr Hrj-jb ^nxn
;
Osiris in Hierakonpolis,

^jnpw tpj Dw=f jmj-wt
;
Anubis on his mountain, the one of embalming,

<2> nb tA-Dsr
;
<2> lord of the necropolis.

Dj=sn prt-r-xrw
;
May they give a mortuary offering

t Hnqt kAw Apdw
;
of bread, beer, oxen and fowl,

jxt nb nfrt wabt anxt nTr jm
;
and all good and pure things on which a god lives,

DDt pt
;
what the sky gives,

<3> qmAt tA
;
<3> what the land produces,

jnnt Hapj m TpHt=f
;
what the Nile brings from its source,

ssnt TAw nDm <4> n mHyt
;
smelling the sweet breath <4> of the north wind,

swr mw Hr bAbAt nt jtrw
;
drinking water from the watering-place of the river,

aq prt <5> m hrw xr tpjw-a 
;
coming in and going out <5> by day with the ancestors,

r Ssp prt-r-xrw m Hb nb nfr n ^wsjr
;
to receive a mortuary offering at every beautiful feast of Osiris,

n kA n sS <6> ^Hr-mnj
;
for the scribe <6> Hormeni.

Dd=f
;
He says:

jT.n=j rnpwt aSAt m HAtj-a n ^nxn
;
'I spent many years as count of Hierakonpolis.

ms.n=j <7> jnw=s n nb tAwj
;
I brought <7> its tributes to the lord of the Two Lands.

Hs.kw
;
I was praised,

n gm.tw sp=j
;
as no fault of mine was found.

pH.n=j jA<8>wj m ^wAwAt
;
I reached old age in Wawat,

jw=j m mH-jb n nbw=j
;
while being confidant of my lords.

xdd=j Xr <9> jnw=s n nsw Tnw rnpt
;
Every year I sailed north with its tributes to the king.

prr=j jm m mAa-xrw
;
I ascended there as one who is justified.

n gm.n.tw DAyt=j
;
No wrongdoing by me was found.'
