[5] the staff of the king [when]
brought into the temples, 7. the Erpa in the throne chamber of Keb, the
Kher-heb (precentor) in the seat of Thoth, the repeater (or herald) of
the tillage of the Ram-god, who turneth aside the Utchat (sacred eye),
who approacheth the Utchat by the great Ram of gold (?), who seeth the
setting of the great god [who] is born when it is fettered, the
Ur-kherp-hem,[6] Pa-sher-en-Ptah, the son of a man who held like
offices, Peta-Bast, whose word (or voice) is truth, born of 8. the great
decorated sistrum bearer and tambourine woman of Ptah, the great one of
his South Wall, the Lord of Ankh-taui, whose word (or voice) is truth.

"And the heart of the Ur-kherp-hem rejoiced in her exceedingly. I bore
to him a child three times, but I did not bear a man child besides these
three daughters. And I and the Ur-kherp-hem prayed to 9. the Majesty of
this holy god, who [worketh] great wonders and bestoweth happiness (?),
who giveth a son to him that hath one not, and Imhetep, the son of Ptah,
hearkened unto our words, and he accepted his prayers. And the Majesty
of this god came unto this Ur-kherp-hem during [his] sleep, and said
unto him, 10. 'Let there be built a great building in the form of a
large hall [for the lord of] Ankh-taui, in the place where his body is
wrapped up (or concealed), and in return for this I will give thee a man
child.' And the Ur-kherp-hem woke up out of his sleep after these
[words], and he smelt the ground before this holy god. And he laid them
(_i.e._ the words) before the priests, 11. and the chief of the
mysteries, and the libationers, and the artisans of the House of Gold,
at one time, and he despatched them to make the building perfect in the
form of a large, splendid funerary hall. And they did everything
according as he had said. And he performed the ceremony of 'Opening the
Mouth' for this holy god, and he made to him a great offering of the
beautiful offerings of every kind, and he bestowed upon him sculptured
images 12. for the sake of this god, and he made happy their hearts with
offerings of all kinds in return for this [promise].

"Then I conceived a man child, and I brought him forth on the fifteenth
day of the third month[7] of the season Shemu of the sixth year, at the
eighth hour of the day, under the Majesty of the Queen, the Lady of the
Two Lands, Cleopatra, Life, Strength, Health [be to her!], 13. [the day]
of the festival of 'things on the altar' of thi