ants and
foreigners of the whole land; they are to thee forever; for thou hast
created them, to be under the command of thy son, who is on

37 thy throne, the master of gods and men, the lord who celebrates the
festivals of thirty years like thou, he who wears the double sistrum, the
son of the white crown, and the issue of the red diadem, who unites the
two countries in peace, the King of Egypt, Ra-userma-sotep-en-Ra, the son
of Ra, Rameses, beloved of Amen, living eternally.

Hymn To Osiris

(Stele of Amen-em-ha, Eighteenth Dynasty)

Translated by M. Francois Chabas

This stele is one of the usual funereal tablets which are found in the
cemeteries at Memphis and Thebes. The upper part of the tablet is round,
and has the two sacred eyes and symbolical signets, which, as well as the
winged globe, almost invariably surmount these sacred inscriptions, and of
which the meaning has not yet been satisfactorily determined.

Immediately below this emblem are two vignettes: in the first a
functionary named Amen-em-ha ("Amen at the beginning") presents a funereal
offering to his father Amen-mes ("Amen's son," or, "born of Amen") the
steward of the deity's flocks,(439) beside whom is his deceased wife
Nefer-t-aru and a young boy, his son, Amen-em-ua ("Amen in the bark"). In
the second vignette, a principal priest (_heb_) of Osiris, dressed in the
sacerdotal leopard's skin, offers incense to the lady Te-bok ("The
servant-maid"); below is a row of kneeling figures, namely: two sons,
Si-t-mau ("Son of the mother"), Amen-Ken ("Amon the warlike"), and four
daughters, Meri-t-ma ("Loving justice"), Amen-Set ("Daughter of Amen"),
Souten-mau ("Royal Mother"), and Hui-em-neter ("Food for god"). As there
is no indication of relationship between the subjects of the two
vignettes, it may be inferred that Te-Bok was a second wife of Amen-em-ha.

The lower portion of the tablet is filled up with the following Hymn to
Osiris, written in twenty-eight lines of hieroglyphics which are very well
preserved except wherever the name of the deity Amen occurs, which has
been hammered out(440) evidently at the time of the religious revolution
in Egypt under the reign of Amenophis IV, who, assuming the name of
Chu-en-aten ("Splendor," or, "Glory of the solar disk"), overthrew the
worship of the older divinities and principally that of Amen-Ra; a change
which was again overthrown in the period of his su