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Appearance of the King of Lower Egypt.

'Introduction of the King into the double Senuta-house.

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143. Appearance of the King of Upper Egypt.

Appearance of the King of Lower Egypt.

Stretching of the Cord (for) the House (called): "Shelter-of-the

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[Birth of] the two children of the King of Lower Egypt. [Sixth occurrence of the numbering.]

Year x+2

146. Building of 100-cubitd dewatowe-ships (Dw'-t'wy) of meru (mr) wood, and of 60 sixteene-barges of the king.

aThe senut (śnwt) are flag-staves on a temple front

bAt least eleven years more may be added to this reign.

cAs the numberings are irregular in this reign, it is not safe to compute the year from the two given.

dThis refers to the length, which was thus some 167 feet.

eThis numeral refers to a dimension or to the number of oars in each barge, or something similar. Schaefer relevantly recalls the "eights" (ships) of Uni (§ 322, 1. 41).

Hacking up the land of the Negro.

Bringing of 7,000 living prisoners, and 200,000 large and small cattle. Building of the wall of the Southland and Northland ('called1) "Houses-of-Snefru."

Bringing of 40 ships filled (with) cedar wood.a

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Building of a 100-cubit dewatowe-ship (Dw-twy) of cedar wood, and 2 100-cubit ships of meru wood.

Seventh occurrence of the numbering.

5 cubits, 1 palm, 1 finger.

148. Erection of:

Year x+4

"Exalted-is-the-White-Crown-of-Snefru-upon-the-Southern-Gate."c "Exalted-is-the-Red-Crown-of-Snefru-upon-the-Northern-Gate."c Making the doors of the king's palace of cedar wood. Eighth occurrence of the numbering.

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aThis is an expedition by sea to Lebanon. The omission of the prepositions (here m, “with") is common in this inscription, having been copied without change by the Fifth Dynasty scribe, from the ancient original of Snefru's time, in which, as commonly in the archaic inscriptions, the prepositions were lacking.

bSome particular kind of building is meant.

These are the names of two gates or parts of the palace of Snefru: one for the South and one for the North. We have thus the double name of a double palace, which, like the organs of the government, was double, to correspond with the old kingdoms of South and North. These two gates are still preserved in the palace of the Empire as seen in the Amarna tombs. The palace front was always referred to as the "double façade" or "double gate" (Rwty); hence also the dual determinative of pr-. The state temples also were double; each had a "double façade," and the hypostyle was divided into north and south by the central aisle. The division of the palace audience hall will have been the same. That the two names in § 148 do not refer to two separate buildings is shown by the record of the making of the doors in the next remark, as in the year 7 of Miebis.

dAfter the year-sign, the sign for king and, below, the cubit-sign are visible.

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The king worships the gods who united the Two Lands.

selection of the place of the pyramid (called):

"Shelter-of-Shepseskaf."

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aThe determinative after the name of his mother and the tip of one sign before it are all that remains of his reign.

bBeginning of the back.

cPossibly one of the three ephemeral kings placed by the Sakkara list and Manetho at the close of the Fourth Dynasty. See Meyer, Aegyptische Chronologie, 195.

dMeyer (ibid.) would see in the vacant space left by the scribe before this note an evidence of the illegitimacy of this king; it would seem, however, that a number of the exigencies of space might have produced such a vacancy.

eThe date of his accession.

fConfer the coronation of Hatshepsut, II, 240.

8These numerals, like those in 11. 2-4, are the numbers of the stat of land in the temple endowments of that year.

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154. The King of Upper and Lower Egypt Userkaf; he made (it) as his monument for:

155. The spirits of Heliopolis: 20 offerings of bread and beer at -1 and every every - feast; 36 stat of land — — in the domain of Userkaf.

156. 1. The gods of the sun-temple (called): Sepre (Sp-R): 24 stat of land in the domain of Userkaf;

2 oxen, 2 geese every day.

2. Re: 44 stat of land in the nomes of the Northland;

3. Hathor: 44 stat of land in the nomes of the Northland.

4. The gods of the House of — of Horus: 54 stat of land; erection

of the shrine of his temple (in) Buto of the nome of Xois;

5. Sepa (Sp3): 2 stat of land; building of his temple.

6. Nekhbet in the sanctuary (ntry) of the South: 10 offerings of bread and beer every day.

7. Buto in Pernu (Pr-nw): 10 offerings of bread and beer every day.

8. The gods of the sanctuary (ntry) of the South: 48 offerings of bread and beer every day.

157. Year of the third occurrence of the numbering of large cattle. 4 cubits, 2 fingers.

Year 6

158. [The King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Userkaf; he made (it) as his monument for]:

b: 1,700 stat -- in the North;

aThis may be year 6, according as the numbering began in year 1 or 2; but the restoration of the stone rather favors year 5.

bSome god's name.

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KING SAHURE

Year 5a

159. a) The King of [Upper] and Lower Egypt, Sahure; he made (it) as his monument for:

I. 1.

in Heliopolis;
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200

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2. Nekhbet, mistress of Perwer (Pr-wr): 800 daily offerings of bread and beer;

3. Buto, mistress of Perneser (Pr-nsr): 4,800 daily offerings of bread and beer;

4. Re in the Senut-house (Śnwt): 138 daily offerings of bread and beer;

5. Re in the Sanctuary (ntry) of the South: 40 daily offerings of bread and beer;

6. Re in Tep-het (Tp-ht): 74 daily offerings of bread and beer; 7. Hathor in the sun-temple, Sekhet-Re (Sht-R): 4 daily offerings of bread and beer;

8. Re of the sun-temple, Sekhet-Re: 2,000] - stat of land in the nome of 'Xois1;

9. Mes (Mŝ): 2 stat of land in the nome of Busiris; 10. Sem (Sm): 2 stat of land in the nome of Busiris;

11. Khent-yawetef (Hnt-y' wtf): 2

phite nome;

12. Hathor in Ro-she (R3-š) of Sahure: 2

East;

stat of land in the Mem

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13. Hathor in (the temple of) the pyramid, "The-Soul-of-SahureShines": I stat of land in the Libyan nome;

14. The White Bull: 13-1 stat of land in the eastern Khent nome (XIV).

15. b) Third occurrence of the finding of — —

Year of the second numbering.

2 cubits, 2 fingers.

Year 6

160. The King of Upper and Lower Egypt [Sahure; he made it

as his monument for]:

aIt is the second numbering, and may be year 4.

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