Elkab: cemetery, tomb of Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet, doorway 8: Amen-hetep Hapu with his parents leaving the tomb with a long inscription above

¹[...] ²[...] ³[...] tȝ m [...] ⁴[...] [zȝ] nswt n nḫb.t jmj-st-[ʿ] ⁵ḥr sȝ nb ẖr.j-ḥb.t ʿḳ [...] ḳbnt zš tȝ [...] ⁶ḥr sȝ [...] sn ḥm-kȝ n nswt (ḏsr-kȝ-rʿ)| ḫʿ-m-wȝs.t mʿȝ ḫrw ⁷dwȝ rʿ ḥtp.f m ʿnḫ m ȝḫt jmn.t n.t pt jn ⁸zȝ nswt  tp.(j) n nḫb.t jmj-st-ʿ ḥr sȝ nb ḥr.j-ḥbt ʿḳ ʿȝ n st wr.t ⁹n nḫb.t ḥm-kȝ n nswt (ḏsr-kȝ-rʿ)| mȝʿ ḫrw ḥm-kȝ n ḥm.t nṯr (Ỉʿḥ-ms-nfr.t-jrj)| mȝʿ.t ḫrw ḥm-kȝ ¹⁰n ḥm.t nswt (jʿḥ-ms)| ḥm-kȝ n nswt (ʿȝ-ḫpr.w-rʿ)| mȝʿ ḫrw ḥm-kȝ n (ḏsr-kȝ-rʿ)| mȝʿ ḫrw ¹¹m wḥm ḥm-kȝ n ḥm-t nswt (jʿḥ-ms)| m [wḥm] zš mḏȝt nṯr [ḥm.w]-nṯr [n] nḫb.t ¹²r-ḫt.f ʿȝ n [wḏʿ].t n nḫb.t jmn-ḥtp ḏd.tw n.f ḥpw mȝʿ ḫrw ¹³jr.n zȝ nswt tp.(j) n nḫb.t ḫʿ-m-wȝs.t mȝʿ ḫrw jr.n zȝ nswt tp.(j) n nḫb.t jmn-ḥtp ¹⁴jr.n zȝ nswt tp.(j) n nḫb.t ḏḥwtj-ms mȝʿ ḫrw ms.n nb.t pr wsr-ḥȝt mȝʿ.(t) ḫrw ¹⁵ḏd.f jnḏ-ḥr.k rʿ-tm.(w) ḫʿ.tj m nswt nṯr.w ¹⁶nm.k pt n tȝ jb.k ȝw mr n ds.wj ḫpr m ¹⁷ḥtp.w sḫr ḫft.j.w.k m ḫr.t-hrw dj.k wn.j mmj ¹⁸ḥz.jj.w m st nfr.t n.t mȝʿ.t.j.w snsn.j ḥnʿ rʿ nn ḫnr ¹⁹bȝ.j r mr.n.f ss tȝ ṯȝw nḏm n mḥ.t n kȝ n jmn-ḥtp ḏd.tw n.f ḥpw mȝʿ ḫrw

¹[...] ²[...] ³[... ] the land in [...] ⁴[...] first king’s [son] of Nekhebet, the acoly[te] ⁵of every phyle, the lector-priest, who can enter [...] the magistrates [...], scribe of the land [...] ⁶of the phyle [...] second [...] the ka-servant of the king (Djeser-ka-Ra)|, Kha-em-Waset, true of voice. ⁷Adoration of Ra as he sets in life in the western Horizon of the sky by ⁸the first king’s son of Nekhebet, acolyte of every phyle, lector-priest, who can enter, great one in the Great Seat ⁹of Nekhebet, ka-servant of the king (Djeser-ka-Ra)|, true of voice, ka-servant of the god’s wife (Ah-mes-neferet-iri)|, true of voice, ka-servant ¹⁰of the king’s wife (Ah-mes)|, ka-priest of the king (Aa-kheperu-Ra)|, true of voice, ka-servant of (Djeser-ka-Ra)|, true of voice, ¹¹once again the ka-servant of the king’s wife (Ah-mes)|, once [again] the scribe of the divine scroll, the [priests of] Nekhebet being ¹²under his authority, great one in the [council] of Nekhebet, Amen-hetep, called Hapu, true of voice, ¹³begotten by the first king’s son of Nekhebet Kha-em-Waset, true of voice, begotten by the first king’s son of Nekhebet Amen-hetep, ¹⁴begotten by the first king’s son of Nekhebet Djehuti-mes, true of voice, born by the lady of the house Weser-hat, true of voice. ¹⁵He says: ‘Hail to you, Ra-Atum, as you appear as the king of the gods. ¹⁶When you traverse the sky and the earth, your heart is in joy and the Canal of the Two Knives becomes ¹⁷pacified as your enemies are overthrown daily. Let me be among ¹⁸the favoured ones in the beautiful seat of the just ones, so that I could accompany Ra, so that my ba would not be separated ¹⁹from what he has loved. Breathing the sweet breeze of the North Wind for the ka of Amen-hetep called Hapu’.

Translation by Filip Taterka