Åsår unnut än Nekht ab-k ab Set, "the giving of a vase of wine to Osiris the temple-servant, the scribe Nekht. Thou art pure, Set is pure."

3. Kneeling figure of a man offering, and the legend

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mmm erṭāt menkh ḥebs en Åsår än M

Nekht, "the giving of linen bandages to Osiris, the scribe Nekht."

On the left of the stele are :—

1. Kneeling figure offering,, etc., and the legend

Nekht, "the giving of holy offerings to the scribe Nekht."

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2. Kneeling figure of a man offering, and the legend

ab en mu en ka en Åsår unnut en Åmen än Nekht maākheru āb-k āb Heru," the giving of a vase of water to the double of Osiris, the temple-servant of Åmen, the scribe Nekht, triumphant! Thou art pure, Horus is pure."

3. Kneeling figure of a man offering

legend,

and the

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ertat metchet uatch mestem en än Nekht

maakheru, "the giving of fresh unguents and eye-paint to the scribe Nekht, triumphant!"

Beneath the stele is shown a pile of funereal offerings consisting of fruits and flowers, bread and cakes, ducks, haunches of beef, etc.; on each side is a female wearing a sycamore, the emblem of the goddess Hathor, upon her head, and holding offerings of fruit, flowers, etc., in her hands, and behind each is a young man bringing additional offerings.

The scene on the wall at the other end of the chamber was never finished by the artist. In the upper division are Nekht and his wife Taui seated, having a table loaded with funereal offerings before them; a priestly official and the nine smeri bring offerings of oil, flowers, etc. In the lower division also are Nekht and his wife Taui seated, having a table of offerings before them, and four priestly officials are bringing haunches of veal or beef to them.

On the wall to the left of the doorway leading into the smaller chamber are painted the following scenes connected with agriculture:-1. An arm of the Nile or a canal. On one side are two men ploughing with oxen, and labourers breaking up hard sods with mallets, while a third scatters the seed; on the other are seen men digging up the ground with hoes, and the sower sowing seed.

sits the deceased Nekht in the seḥ hall,

At one end

and at the

other is a tree having a water-skin on one of the branches, from which a man drinks. 2. Men reaping, a woman gleaning, men tying up sheaves in a sack, women twisting flax. 3. The measuring of the grain. 4. Winnowing the grain. Above the head of Nekht, who sits in a seḥ chamber, is the inscription:

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unnut

en

maakheru kher

the temple-servant of [Amen, Nekht], triumphant before

neter

the great god.

On the left of the agricultural scenes stands Nekht pouring out a libation over an altar loaded with all manner of funereal offerings; behind him is his wife Taui holding a menåt, emblem of joy and pleasure, in her right hand, and a sistrum in her left.

Beneath the altar two priests

are sacrificing a bull. The inscription above the whole scene reads:

uten khet nebt nefert abt ta heq ah Offering of things all beautiful, pure, bread, beer, oxen,

his darling, of the seat of his heart, the singing priestess

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of [Amen, Taui, triumphant !]

On the wall to the right of the doorway leading into the smaller chamber are painted the following scenes :-Upper register. Nekht in a boat, accompanied by his wife and. children, spearing fish and bringing down birds with the boomerang in a papyrus swamp. Above is the inscription:

On the bank stand two of Nekht's servants holding sandals, staff, boomerang, etc., and beneath is another servant carrying to Nekht the birds which Nekht himself has brought down. The inscriptions above read :—

1.10 100 SAJ !

I.

sekhemkhem

[and] in the work of the goddess Sekhet,

the friend

His sister the singing priestess of [Amen], the lady