I passed a long period of my life [that
is] years, under the Majesty of my Lord, the Horus, Uahankh, the King of
the South and North, the son of the Sun, Antef. Behold, this country was
subject unto him in the south as far as Thes, and in the north as far as
Abtu of Then (Abydos of This). Behold, I was in the position of body
servant of his, and was an actual chief under him. He magnified me, and
he made my position to be one of great prominence, and he set me in the
place beloved (?) for the affairs of his heart, in his palace. Because
of the singleness [of my heart] he appointed me to be a bearer of the
royal seal, and the deputy of the registrary (?). [I] selected the good
things of all kinds of the offerings brought to the Majesty of my Lord,
from the South and from the North land whensoever a taxing was made, and
I made him to rejoice at the assessment which was made everywhere
throughout the country. Now His Majesty had been afraid that the
tribute, which was brought to His Majesty, my Lord, from the princes who
were the overlords of the Red Country (Lower Egypt), would dwindle away
in this country, and he had been afraid that the same would be the case
in the other countries also. He committed to me these matters, for he
knew that my administration was able. I rendered to him information
about them, and because of my great knowledge of affairs never did
anything escape that was not replaced. I was one who lived in the heart
of his Lord, in very truth, and I was a great noble after his own heart.
I was as cool water and fire in the house of my Lord. The shoulders of
the great ones bent [before me]. I did not thrust myself in the train of
the wicked, for which men are hated. I was a lover of what was good, and
a hater of what was evil. My disposition was that of one beloved in the
house of my Lord. I carried out every course of action in accordance
with the urgency that was in the heart of my Lord. Moreover, in the
matter of every affair which His Majesty caused me to follow out, if any
official obstructed me in truth I overthrew his opposition. I neither
resisted his order, nor hesitated, but I carried it out in very truth.
In making any computation which he ordered, I made no mistake. I did
not set one thing in the place of another. I did not increase the flame
of his wrath in its strength. I did not filch property from an
inheritance. Moreover, as concerning all that His Majesty commanded to
set before him in resp