Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
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Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
Egyptian literature -- Translations into English
Now when Tahutia came near to Joppa, with all the footmen of Pharaoh, he
sent unto the Foe in Joppa, and said, “Behold now his Majesty, King
Men-kheper-ra, has sent all this great army against thee; but what is that
if my heart is as thy heart? Do thou come, and let us talk in the field,
and see each other face to face.” So Tahutia came with certain of his men;
and the Foe in Joppa came likewise, but his charioteer that was with him
was true of heart unto the King of Egypt. And they spoke with one another
in his great tent, which Tahutia had placed far off from the soldiers. But
Tahutia had made ready 200 sacks, with cords and fetters, and had made a
great sack of skins with bronze fetters, and many baskets: and they were
in his tent, the sacks and the baskets, and he had placed them as the
forage for the horses is put in baskets. For while the Foe in Joppa drank
with Tahutia, the people who were with him drank with the footmen of
Pharaoh, and made merry with them. And when their bout of drinking was
past, Tahutia said to the Foe in Joppa, “If it please thee, while I remain
with the women and children of thy own city, let one bring of my people
with their horses, that they may give them provender, or let one of the
Apuro run to fetch them.” So they came, and hobbled their horses, and gave
them provender, and one found the great cane of Men-kheper-ra (Tahutmes
III), and came to tell of it to Tahutia. And thereupon the Foe in Joppa
said to Tahutia: “My heart is set on examining the great cane of
Men-kheper-ra, which is named ‘... tautnefer.’ By the _ka_ of the King
Men-kheper-ra it will be in thy hands to-day; now do thou well and bring
thou it to me.” And Tahutia did thus, and he brought the cane of King
Men-kheper-ra. And he laid hold on the Foe in Joppa by his garment, and he
arose and stood up, and said, “Look on me, O Foe in Joppa; here is the
great cane of King Men-kheper-ra, the terrible lion, the son of Sekhet, to
whom Amen his father gives power and strength.” And he raised his hand and
struck the forehead of the Foe in Joppa, and he fell helpless before him.
He put him in the sack of skins and he bound with gyves the hands of the
Foe in Joppa, and put on his feet the fetters with four rings. And he made
them bring the 200 sacks which he had cleaned, and made to enter into them
200 soldiers, and filled the hollows with cords and fetters of wood, he
sealed them with a seal, and added to them their rope-nets and the poles
to bear them. And he put every strong footman to bear them, in all 600
men, and said to them, “When you come into the town you shall open your
burdens, you shall seize on all the inhabitants of the town, and you shall
quickly put fetters upon them.”
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