gods; and
Nephthys, the divine sister of Horus, the 2. avenger of his father, the
great god in Raqetit; and Anubis, who is on his hill, the dweller in the
chamber of embalmment, at the head of the divine hall; and all the gods
and goddesses who dwell in the mountain of Amentet the beautiful of
Hetkaptah (Memphis), give the offerings that come forth at the word,
beer, and bread, and oxen, and geese, and incense, and unguents, and
suits of apparel, and good things of all kinds upon their altars, to the
KA of 3. the Osiris, the great princess, the one who is adorned, the
woman who is in the highest favour, the possessor of pleasantness,
beautiful of body, sweet of love in the mouth of every man, who is
greatly praised by her kinsfolk, the youthful one, excellent of
disposition, always ready to speak her words of sweetness, whose counsel
is excellent, Thaiemhetep, whose word (or voice) is truth, the beloved
daughter of the royal kinsman, the priest of Ptah, libationer of the
gods of 4. White Wall (Memphis), priest of Menu (or Amsu), the Lord of
Senut (Panopolis), and of Khnemu, the Lord of Smen-Heru (Ptolemais),
priest of Horus, the Lord of Sekhem (Letopolis), chief of the mysteries
in Aat-Beqt, chief of the mysteries in Sekhem, and in It, and in
Kha-Hap; the daughter of the beautiful sistrum bearer of Ptah, the great
one of his South Wall, the Lord of Ankh-taui, Herankh, 5. she saith:
"Hail, all ye judges and all ye men of learning, and all ye high
officials, and all ye nobles, and all ye people, when ye enter into this
tomb, come ye, I pray, and hearken unto what befell me.
"The ninth day of the fourth month [2] of the season Akhet of the ninth
year under the Majesty of the King of the Two Lands, the god Philopator,
Philadelphus, Osiris the Young, the Son of Ra, the lord of the Crowns of
the South and of the North, Ptolemy, the ever living, beloved of Ptah
and Isis, 6. [was] the day whereon I was born.
"On the ... day of the third month [3] of the season Shemu of the
twenty-third year under the Majesty of this same Lord of the Two Lands,
my father gave me to wife to the priest of Ptah, the scribe of the
library of divine books, the priest of the Tuat Chamber, [4] the
libationer of the gods of the Wall, the superintendent of the priests of
the gods and goddesses of the North and South, the two eyes of the King
of Upper Egypt, the two ears of the King of Lower Egypt, the second of
the king in raising up the Tet pillar,
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