Gebel es-Silsilah: Shrine 15, north wall 10. Offering table in front of the owner and his mother

Filip Taterka
June 4, 2018

Main register:

Inscription above the sitiing figures:

1(j)r(j)-pʿ(t) [ḥȝt.(j)-ʿ] ḫtm.w bjt.j [s]mr 2ʿȝ n [mr.t rȝ n] nswt ʿnḫ.wj n 3bjt.j rȝ sh[r] m tȝ 4r ḏr.f [ḫtm.w] bjt.j [jt]-nṯr tp.j n 5[jmn] jmj-rȝ ḥm.w-nṯr [šmʿ mḥ.w] 6ḥpw-snb [mȝʿ ḫrw] 7mwt.f mr.t.[f jʿḥ]-ḥtp [mȝʿ.t ḫrw]

Inscription below the offering-table:

ḫȝ tȝ ḫȝ ḥnḳt ḫȝ kȝ ḫȝ ȝpd ḫȝ snṯr ḫȝ mrḥt ḫȝ šz ḫȝ mnḫt

Inscription above the female standing figure:

1nb.t pr mr.t.f 2[jmn]-ḥtp mȝʿ.t ḫrw

Inscription in front of the standing male figure:

1[...] ḥm-nṯr tp.j n 2[jmn ḥ]pw-snb 3[...] ẖr.(j)-ḥb(t) 2-nw n (ʿȝ-ḫpr-kȝ-rʿ)| dj ʿnḫ ʿȝ-ḫpr-kȝ-rʿ-nfr [...]

Main register:

Inscription above the sitiing figures:

1The nobleman, [nomarch], seal-bearer of the king, a companion 2great of [love, the mouth of] the king of Upper Egypt, the ears of 3the king of Lower Egypt, the mouth that makes [peace] in the 4entire 3land, 4the [seal-bearer] of the king, the first god’s father of 5[Amun], overseer of the priests [of the South and the North], 6Hapu-seneb, [true of voice]. 7His mother, [his] beloved, [Ah]-hetep, [true of voice].

Inscription below the offering table:

A thousand of bread-loaves, a thousand jars of beer, a thousand pieces of beef, a thousand pieces of fowl, a thousand portions of incense, a thousand portions of unguent, a thousand of travertine vessels, a thousand pieces of linen.

Inscription above the female standing figure:


1The lady of the house, his beloved, 2[Amen]-hetep, true of voice.

Inscription in front of the standing male figure:


1[...] first priest of 2[Amun He]pu-seneb. 3[... ] the second lector-priest of of (Aa-kheper-ka-Ra)|, given life, Aa-kheper-ka-Ra-nefer [...]

Translation by Filip Taterka

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