[... ... ... Royal seal-bearer] and sole friend (of the King), [... ... ...] the king [... ... ..., overseer of] all [dut]ies [of the door] of the foreign countries [consisting of] the ornament of the king, [one to whom were reported the jnu-gifts of the Medja], consisting of the tri[bute] of the rulers [of the foreign countries, one who spends the night in the god's booth on the day of] the great festival, one who received presents [from the riches that the king gives out in] the palace, chief [of praise in the] divine [barge] in front of the god, [one who is over every wonder of the Nubians] from the cataract area (lit. who are upon troublesome water).
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/13/2023)
I built [a tomb] through the royal favour of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt 𓍹Kheperkare𓍺, after His Majesty [ex]alt[ed] me in the land, I being distinguished [more than the governors of the nomes.]
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/13/2023)
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/13/2023)
As for this tomb, which I made in the desert of the sacred land, in the midst of the/my ancestors who had created my flesh (and of) the dignitaries of the first (primeval) time, the possessors of monuments as ancient office-holders, the primeval ones (?) who started with the making of the sandbank of Heqet since the time of Geb, I built it in order to make lasting my place in their midst in the realm of the dead (lit. nome of silence).
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 06/26/2025)
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/17/2023)
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/17/2023)
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 10/17/2023)
One dignified, beloved of his lord, one who does what he praises in the course of every day, one who followed the way of a king's subject, of whom his lord knows that his counsel is good, one sincere concerning every speech, the chamberlain Dedusobek; he says:
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 06/26/2025)
Author(s):
Ingelore Hafemann;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Anja Weber
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 11/14/2019)
[as you (pl.) are ... with] the King, as you are joyous with the ruler, may you say: "A thousand of bread and beer to the lord of [this] tomb, [the count Djefaihapi (?)]," without your mouth getting tired of it. Not [... ... ... ...]
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by:
AV Wortschatz der ägyptischen Sprache,
Peter Dils,
Johannes Jüngling,
Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 06/26/2025)
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