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
And they made this known to the priests of Isis at Koptos and to the
high-priest of Isis; and behold they came down to him, and gave him their
hand to the shore. He went up with them and entered into the temple of
Isis of Koptos and of Harpokrates. He ordered one to offer for him an ox,
a goose, and some wine, and he made a burnt-offering and a drink-offering
before Isis of Koptos and Harpokrates. He went to the cemetery of Koptos
with the priests of Isis and the high-priest of Isis. They dug about for
three days and three nights, for they searched even in all the catacombs
which were in the cemetery of Koptos; they turned over the steles of the
scribes of the “double house of life,” and read the inscriptions that they
found on them. But they could not find the resting-place of Ahura and
Mer-ab.
Now Na.nefer.ka.ptah perceived that they could not find the resting-place
of Ahura and her child Mer-ab. So he raised himself up as a venerable,
very old, ancient, and came before Setna. And Setna saw him, and Setna
said to the ancient, “You look like a very old man; do you know where is
the resting-place of Ahura and her child Mer-ab?” The ancient said to
Setna: “It was told by the father of the father of my father to the father
of my father, and the father of my father has told it to my father; the
resting-place of Ahura and of her child Mer-ab is in a mound south of the
town of Pehemato(?).” And Setna said to the ancient, “Perhaps we may do
damage to Pehemato, and you are ready to lead one to the town for the sake
of that.” The ancient replied to Setna: “If one listens to me, shall he
therefore destroy the town of Pehemato! If they do not find Ahura and her
child Mer-ab under the south corner of their town may I be disgraced.”
They attended to the ancient, and found the resting-place of Ahura and her
child Mer-ab under the south corner of the town of Pehemato. Setna laid
them in the royal boat to bring them as honored persons, and restored the
town of Pehemato as it originally was. And Na.nefer.ka.ptah made Setna to
know that it was he who had come to Koptos, to enable them to find out
where the resting-place was of Ahura and her child Mer-ab.
So Setna left the haven in the royal boat, and sailed without stopping,
and reached Memphis with all the soldiers who were with him. And when they
told the King he came down to the royal boat. He took them as honored
persons escorted to the catacombs, in which Na.nefer.ka.ptah was, and
smoothed down the ground over them.
_This is the completed writing of the tale of Setna Kha.em.uast, and
Na.nefer.ka.ptah, and his wife Ahura, and their child Mer-ab. It was
written in the 35th year, the month Tybi._
Tales Of The Magicians
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