Sentence ID ICMCcup29Q8HV0R9hwYVeWQJU2E
Two dependents of (my) funerary [estate] were messengers #lc: [7]# carrying (lit.: under) measures of incense --lost--, one three-cubit long elephant tusk to let it be known that I brought a seven-cubit (⸢5⸣ [+2]) long lion-skin, [this] father (of mine) [and] all gifts --lost-- from these foreign lands.
Comments
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⸢ꜥḥꜥ⸣ "a heap", see Edel 2008: 50, cf. pl. IX and Urk. I 137, 9.
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The hare sign (E 34) should be probably replaced by the giraffe sign (E 27), see Kloth 2002: 205, footnote 868.
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[jn=f] "[which he brought]" (a Clère's relative form), see Sethe, Urk. I 137, 13. Edel (2008: 50) transcribed [jnj.nf] "[which he brought]" (a past relative form). Strudwick (2005: 336) translates "which is brought" and Doret (The Narrative Verbal System of Old and Middle Egyptian, 1986: 59) read [jn.n.(j)] "which (I) had brought).
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The pronoun sw referring to the noun topic "a seven-cubit long lion-skin" is omitted in the inscription.
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