Elkab: cemetery, tomb of Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet, façade 1: Door jamb: Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet before an offering table with a long inscription above

Filip Taterka
June 4, 2018
Long inscription:

1
[...] jmj-rȝ ḫtm.t jʿḥ-ms mȝʿ ḫrw 2[...] n kȝ n jt-nṯr mr nṯr wḥm nswt tp.j p(ȝ)-n-nḫb.t mȝʿ ḫrw 3[ḥtp] dj nswt ḥwt-ḥr.w [...] [nb.t] st [...] mw ḥr bbt jtrw n kȝ n jr.tj n nswt ʿnḫ.wj n bjt.j jʿḥ-ms mȝʿ ḫrw 4[ḥtp] dj nswt jnpw tp.(j)-ḏw.f [...] rwḏ jr.t ḳrs.t m ẖr.t-nṯr bȝ ḥtp ḥr st.f rʿ nb n kȝ n (j)r(j)-pʿ(t) ḥȝt.(j)-ʿ jmj-rȝ ḫtm.t jʿḥ-ms

Inscription above the offering table:

1jr.t ḥtp dj nswt wʿb zp-2 jn sn.f 2s[ʿnḫ] rn.f zȝ nswt tp.(j) n nḫb.t jmj-st-ʿ 3[...] nḫb.t 4ḥpw
Long inscription:

1[...] the overseer of the sealed goods, Ah-mes, true of voice. 2[...] for the ka of the god’s father, beloved of the god, first herald of the king, Pen-Nekhebet, true of voice. 3[An offering], which the king gives to Hathor [...], lLady] of [...] Desert [...] at the edge of the River for the ka of the eyes of the king of Upper Egypt and the ears of the king of Lower Egypt Ah-mes, true of voice. 4An ofering, which the king gives to Anubis [...], The-One-upon-his-Mountain, [...] making a burial in the necropolis, his ba resting in his place every day, for the ka of the nobleman, overseer of the sealed goods Ah-mes, true of voice.

Inscription above the offering table:

1Making the pure pure 'offering, which the king gives', by his brother, who causes his name [to live], the first king’s son of Nekhebet, acolyte 3[...] Nekhebet 4Hapu.