Saqqara: Step Pyramid, South Chamber Graffito from the 20th year of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III from Saqqara

¹rnpt zp 20 ȝbd 3 pr.t sw 2 ḫr ḥm n nswt bjt.j (mȝʿ.t-kȝ-rʿ)| ʿnḫ ḏt ²zȝ rʿ (ḥȝt-šps.wt-ẖnm.t-jmn)| ʿnḫ ḏt r nḥḥ […] ³ḫr ḥm n nswt bjt.j (mn-ḫpr-rʿ)| zȝ rʿ (ḏḥwtj-ms-[…])| ⁴ʿnḫ ḏt r nḥḥ jst [ḥm n] nswt ḥnʿ jt.f ⁵[wṯz] ḥr st ḥr.w n.t [ʿnḫ.w] mj rʿ rʿ nb ⁶jw.t pw jr.n zš ⁷[…] ⁸[…] ⁹ʿḳ r […] [pr] […] nḫt r mȝȝ ¹⁰ḥwt-nṯr n.[t ḥm n] nswt bjt.j (ḏsr)| mȝʿ ḫrw j.gm.n.f st nfr sj ¹¹ḥr […] r […] pt ¹²mw mj ptḥ […] ʿḥʿ.n ḏd.n […] ḥȝ n.j […]ȝww ¹³[…] ¹⁴[…] n ḥm n (ḏsr)| m ḥwt-nṯr.f ¹⁵j zš nb ẖr […] wʿb.w sḫm.t nb.(w) ¹⁶[…] nb pr ḥr.w nb […]

¹Regnal year 20, 3^rd month of the peret-season under the Majesty of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt (Ma‘at-ka-Ra)| – may she live forever! – ²son of Ra (Hatshepsut-khenemet-Amen)| – may she live forever and eternally! – […] and ³under the Majesty of the king of Upper and Lower Egypt (Men-cheper-Ra)|, son of Ra (Thutmose-[…])| – ⁴may he live forever and eternally! Now, the Majesty [of] the king was with his father, ⁵[being elevated] to the throne of Horus of [the living] like Ra, every day. ⁶There came the scribe […] ⁷[…] ⁸[…] ⁹enter […] go forth […] Nekhet to see ¹⁰the temple o[f the Majesty of] the king of Upper and Lower Egypt (Djeser)|, true of voice, and has found it being beautiful ¹¹[…] the sky […] ¹²water like Ptah […] Then, he said: Would that I […] ¹³[…] ¹⁴[…] of the Majesty of (Djeser)| in his temple. ¹⁵Oh, all the scribes carrying […] all the wʿb-priests of Sakhmet ¹⁶[…] every […] House of Horus, lord […]

Translation by Filip Taterka