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, my brother, all the message that _Mani_ came to bring has been
performed. This same year behold, my brother, I will ... his wife, the
Queen of _Egypt_, and I will send ... hence forth the land of _Khanirabbe_
and the land of _Egypt_. And because of these things that _Mani_ has
spoken, I send back, my brother, _Gilia_ and _Mani_ with speed, to ...
these things; and let not my brother blame them ... as to delay in being
despatched; for there was no delay to ... for my brother’s wife; and lo!
delay is.... In the sixth month I have sent _Gilia_ my envoy, and _Mani_
my brother’s envoy: I will send my brother’s wife to my brother. So may
_Istar_ the Lady of Ladies my Goddess, and _Amanu_(372) my brother’s God,
give peace ... I have sent to my brother; and my brother as ... increased
his (love?) very much, and ... as the heart of my brother was satisfied;
and ... (for our children?) my brother ... more than before ... I have
despatched _Khai_, my brother, trusting his ... and I give the letter to
his hands ... and let him bear his message ... I have sent ... going to my
brother ... my brother, are not his soldiers...”
The next five lines referring to the wife are too broken to read. The back
of the tablet continues:
“... which my brother sent ... all that my brother has caused to be
collected ... in presence of all of them they have been (given?) us ...
all these things, beyond expectation thereof, and the gold ... which they
have paid—and he has indeed lavished very much ... them, any or all these
things; was not the gold ... They say ‘In the land of _Egypt_ there is
plenty more gold for thee my brother, because he loves thee very much ...
and will love (and being so?) is not there, behold, anything needful,
anything beside, from the land of Egypt in addition? So send to me,
accordingly, him by whom these are given, and there shall be no lack.’
Thus indeed (said) I ‘As to anything (further?) do not I say to your
faces—He loves me, and my land, exceeding much, does this King of
_Egypt_?’
“And my brother has taken me to his heart: all is as my heart desired; and
is it not understood; when he sends shall not I hasten me for my brother:
shall not I increase in longing toward my brother: as my brother does
also? _Mani_, my brother’s envoy, has brought my brother’s ... which was
with _Mani_. I have honored their ... and I have honored them very much.
Now _Mani_ will take this; and my brother we direct him to ... how I have
received from him very much: he will tell my brother this, and my brother
will hear what we have done (as I have sent list of gifts of this and
that, and he shall not refuse it?).
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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