Speos Artemidos: portico 1. Architrave: long inscription of Hatshepsut

Filip Taterka
June 4, 2018
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1[Live Horus: |Mighty-of-kas|≡, the One of the Two Ladies: Flourishing]-of-years, Golden Falcon: Divine-[of-crowns], Perfect God, Lord of the [Two] Lands, [King of Upper and Lower Egypt ([Ma‘at-ka-Ra])|, son] of Ra, [lord] of the crows[s], [(Hatshepsut-khenemet-Amen)|, given life like Ra, forever], 2the one for whom her great name has been set down and established like the sky, who makes the annals of her bravery distinguished upon the cliffs of the One-who-is-at-the-Top-of-the-Mountain towards the 3rising of the Lord of [Rays] over the desert, when his heat is on the surface of the two deserts. The braziers were spread out and 4the chapels of the favourite places of all the gods were broadened, each one in the sanctuary as he desired with his heart content on his thrones for I have stipulated 5to make them glad. Their colonnades were [...] and the hidden chamber of the inferior of the house was made defensive with respect to the place of bringing away the foot. 6Every [god] was fashioned with his body being of the electrum of Amu, their festivals were stable in their totality, 7their festival offering were made according to its timing holding on the regulations which I had made, the rites of its arrangement which he had made at the beginning 8for the first ones. My divine heart takes thought for the future, while my royal hati-heart has made plans for the eternity according to the utterance of the one who inaugurated the ished-tree: 9Amun, Lord of Myriads. I have magnified the Ma‘at which he loved for I have cognised that he lives on her. It is my bread which I swallow as her fragrance for I was 10in one body with him. He has created me in order to make his fame powerful in this land.  I am the one whom Atum [made] 11known to Khepri, who made what exists, and the one whom Ra has assigned to be founded for him. The shores are assembled under my supervision. The Blackland and the Red[land] fear me for 12my power makes the foreign lands to bow down and the Uraeus which is on my prow appeases all the lands [...] 13Ra-shaut and Yuu cannot hide from My Majesty, while Punt shines for me on [all her] fields and 14her trees bear fresh myrrh. The roads that had been blocked in both lanes are now trodden and 15my soldiers, who had been unequipped, became possessors of richness since my appearance as king. The temple of the Lady of Qis – which [to its limits] 16has fallen into ruin for the earth had swallowed her noble chapel so the kids were dancing upon the roofs of its rooms and 17Qerehet no longer inspired fear so the wretched recognised the defencelessness of loneliness and her appearances were no longer experienced – 18I cleaned it up and build it anew, fashioning her serpent-image of gold [...] 19so that her city might be protected in the bark of the water-procession of the land. The Great Pakhet, who traverses the valleys, who resides in the East, [searched] for 20the roads swept with rain for no libationer was there to present the libations. I have made her temple, by the order [of this goddess], 21for her Ennead. Its doors were made of the acacia-wood banded with copper so that [they] might be [in it. Her festival offerings] were made 22according to its timing and the wab-priests knew the right time for it. The cities of Her-wer and Wenu were p[oor] in provisions. 23I have consecrated their temples, establishing them as places to which one comes and goes. Those who are in [...] the storehouse 24as a requisition from it. Since the great Thoth came forth from Ra, he instructed me, and I [have presented] him with an offering-table of 25silver and gold, chests for clothes, and every jar set in its place. It was not known to the one who enters to see the one who leads 26the Two Enneads of Atum, for there was no wisdom in his House, the god’s fathers being empty-headed and no [son] learned from [his] father. 27The face of My Majesty gives alertness to those who carry the god. I have build his great temple of the white limestone of Aynu, its gates 28being of travertine of Hut-nebu, its doors of Asiatic copper and its figures inlayed with electrum, holy to bear the One High of Two Feathers. I have [magni]fied 29the Majesty of this god with his two festivals: the Feast of Neheb-kau and the Feast of Thoth, which I have re-established for him anew, for 30they had been in the mouth, but not in his festival calendar since the conduct of the festival was made one. I have doubled for him the divine offering, in excess 31of that which had been before, as my deed for the Ocdoad: for Khnum in his forms, for Heqet, Renenutet, 32Mesekhenet, who had assembled to build my body, Nehemet-away, Nehebet-ka, She of whom it is said: ‘Hers is the 33sky and the land!’, the One who is in the Place of Embalming – in He[be]nu. These cities are in feast as they testify to my saying: ‘It is not known, it is not known!’. The enclosure 34walls are in foundation for I have established them and adorned them, giving houses to [their] lords. Every [god] says to himself: ‘Now has come the one who will gain eternity, 35whom Amun caused to appear as the king of the eternity on the throne of Horus!’. Now, listen to me, you, all the nobles, and all the common people in their multitude! I have made this by the idea of my heart. 36I do not sleep forgetfully, but I have strengthened what was in ruin. Now, I have raised what had been ruined since 37the time when the Asiatics were in the midst of the Delta, in Hut-waret, and the foreign vagabonds in their midst 38were destroying what had been done before, for they ruled without Ra, and no-one acted according to the command of the god until the time under My Majesty. I have been established 39on the thrones of Ra with years without end having been foretold to me as the one who came into being in order to conquer. I have come as Horus and my Uraeus 40is spitting flames against my enemies. I have driven away the abomination of the gods and the earth has removed the traces of their sandals. These are the instructions of the father 41of [my] fathers, who comes in his proper time as Ra. No damage will happen, for Amun has ordered my decree to last like the mountains! 42When the sun-disc shines, its rays will lighten the titulary of My Majesty and the falcon upon my serekh will be exalted forever and ever!
Translation by Filip Taterka

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