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Sentence ID ICMCcup29Q8HV0R9hwYVeWQJU2E

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m[r] 2 n(.j) [pr] [n(.j)] ⸢ḏ⸣.t (=j) m s{wn}r.w 7 ẖr snṯr ⸢ꜥḥꜥ⸣ lost [ꜣb]⸢w⸣ ꜣw mḥ 3 nḥḏ.t 1 r r⸢ḏ⸣.t r[ḫ] [-t(j)] n.t(j)t rw ꜣw mḥ ⸢5⸣ [+2] jnm 1 jn.n (=j) (sw) jt (=j) [pn] [ḥnꜥ] jn.w nb lost m ḫꜣs.t.PL (j)ptn

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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.
Dating (time frame):
Pepi II. Neferkare
Comments

  • ⸢ꜥḥꜥ⸣ "a heap", see Edel 2008: 50, cf. pl. IX and Urk. I 137, 9.

    Commentary author: Roberto A. Díaz Hernández (Data file created: 10/04/2023, latest revision: 10/16/2023)

  • The hare sign (E 34) should be probably replaced by the giraffe sign (E 27), see Kloth 2002: 205, footnote 868.

    Commentary author: Roberto A. Díaz Hernández (Data file created: 09/29/2023, latest revision: 09/29/2023)

  • [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).

    Commentary author: Roberto A. Díaz Hernández (Data file created: 09/26/2023, latest revision: 10/16/2023)

  • The pronoun sw referring to the noun topic "a seven-cubit long lion-skin" is omitted in the inscription.

    Commentary author: Roberto A. Díaz Hernández (Data file created: 10/03/2023, latest revision: 10/16/2023)

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