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Sentences of text TLCWFICDIBGNLBZNWJHZWKKJCE
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An offering which the king gives and Osiris, lord of Busiris, Khentamenti, Lord of Abydos in [all his places: a voice-offering of bread and bear, bulls and fowl,] alabaster [and clothing?], a thousand of all good things for
the royal seal-bearer and sole friend,
a trusted one of his great mistress,
one enduring of steps in pouring libations and censing,
[one who ... his?] name (?), one who knows his position,
stable of seal, perfect of form(??),
one able of performance at any event,
possessor of respect and generous,
one faultless of appearance, white of clothes,
noble of body, divine to behold,
one who knows the norms of conduct,
balanced of heart, who mingles with officials,
one open-hearted, with bright entrails,
friendly to the one who comes so that he might say what is in his heart,
a trusted confidant of his mistress, whom she favors,
one whom she placed to the great "gate",
a character beloved in the mouth of the people,
one foremost of place in the royal palace,
steward, the dignified Rediukhnum, who says:
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I am one beloved of his mistress,
her praised one in the course of every day.
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I spent a long period of years
under the lady, the king's ornament Neferukayet,
one great of her kas,
foremost of her places,
great of fathers, foremost of mothers,
for whose forefarthers this sky was lifted up,
a noble one at the fore of this (?) land,
a primaeval spirit at the fore of Upper Egypt;
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as she was a royal daughter and a king's wife that he loved,
who inherited from all her mothers, and re-organized Upper Egypt,
the foremost of people - starting at Elephantine
down to the 10th Upper Egyptian nome - with women
and among estate managers and officials from the entire land.
en I grew up under the feet of Her Majesty since (my) earliest youth, because she knew that my actions were excellent and that I followed the path of the officials.
en Then she appointed me in Dendera, in the great cow barn of her mother - great of documents, foremost of provisions, the greatest administrative unit of Upper Egypt.
en I spent a long time there, a long period of years for it (?).
en There never came a (bad) thing therein, for I was a knower of things.
en I reorganised it, improving its administration to be (lit. as one) better than before.
en I restored what I had found broken; I set up that which I had found fallen; I replenished that which I had found mutilated/missing.
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A1 ḥtp-ḏi̯-nswt Wsjr nb-Ḏd.w Ḫnt.j-jmn.tjw nb-Ꜣbḏw m ca. 5Q A2 šs ⸮[mnḫ.t]? ḫꜣ (n) (j)ḫ.t nb(.t) nfr(.t) n ḫtm.w-bj.tj smr-wꜥ.tj jm.j-jb n(.j) nb.t =f wr.t wꜣḥ nmt m qb jd.t 1Q ⸮rn? =[f] A3 rḫ ꜥḥꜥ(.w) =f rwd ḫtm nfr ꜥbb jqr s.t-ꜥ m šm.t nb.t nb šf.yt wr ḏr.t mꜥr jnm A4 ḥḏ ḥbs.w.PL šps ḥꜥ.PL nṯri̯ mꜣꜣ rḫ tp-ḥsb n(.j) jri̯.t nꜥꜥ jb dmj n sr.PL pgꜣ jb A5 ḥḏ jm.jt-ẖ.t sbṯ ḥr n spr.tj r ḏd =f n.t.t m jb =f ꜥq-jb nb.t =f n(.j)-s.t-jb =s ḏi̯(.w).n =s m ꜥr(r).wt ꜥꜣ.t A6 qd mrr.w m rʾ n(.j) r(m)ṯ.PL ḫnt(.j)-s.t m pr-ꜥꜣ jm.j-rʾ-pr jmꜣḫ.w Rḏi̯-H̱nm.w ḏd |
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An offering which the king gives and Osiris, lord of Busiris, Khentamenti, Lord of Abydos in [all his places: a voice-offering of bread and bear, bulls and fowl,] alabaster [and clothing?], a thousand of all good things for |
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I am one beloved of his mistress, |
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I spent a long period of years |
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as she was a royal daughter and a king's wife that he loved, |
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en I grew up under the feet of Her Majesty since (my) earliest youth, because she knew that my actions were excellent and that I followed the path of the officials. |
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en Then she appointed me in Dendera, in the great cow barn of her mother - great of documents, foremost of provisions, the greatest administrative unit of Upper Egypt. |
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en I spent a long time there, a long period of years for it (?). |
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en There never came a (bad) thing therein, for I was a knower of things. |
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en I reorganised it, improving its administration to be (lit. as one) better than before. |
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en I restored what I had found broken; I set up that which I had found fallen; I replenished that which I had found mutilated/missing. |
Please cite as:
(Full citation)Renata Landgrafova & Peter Dils, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Peter Dils, Johannes Jüngling, Lutz Popko, Sentences of text "Stele des Rediuikhnum (Kairo CG 20543)" (Text ID TLCWFICDIBGNLBZNWJHZWKKJCE) <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/TLCWFICDIBGNLBZNWJHZWKKJCE/sentences>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 18, Web app version 2.1.3, 5/16/2023, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/TLCWFICDIBGNLBZNWJHZWKKJCE/sentences, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)
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