enAs for this chapel, I built (it) in the desert of Abydos - this island where one stays, the walls which the Lord of All ordained, a beneficient place since the time of Osiris, which Horus founded for the forefathers, for which the stars of heaven work, mistress of humankind, to whom the great ones from Busiris come, second (= equal) in blessedness to Heliopolis, with which the Lord of All is satisfied.
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 12/19/2022)
enThe father of the father of my father has served as scribe of the watered fields of Abydos in the Thinite nome since the time of Horus Wahankh, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, son of Re, Antef.
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 12/19/2022)
enAs 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: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 02/01/2023)
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 02/01/2023)
enHis Majesty let me slaughter bulls in the temple of Osiris Khentamentiu in Thinis, (specifically) Abydos, and (income) came to me from their skins, because His Majesty praised me more than any count who existed in it (the temple) since its ancient times.
Author(s):
Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling, Lutz Popko
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 02/02/2023)
Author(s):
Frank Feder;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Antonie Loeschner, Lutz Popko, Simon D. Schweitzer
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 04/20/2023)
Author(s):
Alexander Schütze;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lutz Popko, Kay Christine Klinger
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 02/16/2022)
Author(s):
Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 11/14/2019)
Author(s):
Peter Dils;
with contributions by: Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Johannes Jüngling
(Text file created: before June 2015 (1992–2015),
latest changes: 11/14/2019)
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