Gebel es-Silsilah: Shrine 17, south wall 3. User sitting before an offering table, offering list (unpreserved) and offering ritual

Filip Taterka
June 4, 2018
Inscription above the sitting figures:

1[…] sm 2[…] tȝjtj jmj-rȝ njwt 3[…] [wsr] mȝʿ ḫrw 4[…] n st-jb.f 5[…] [ṯ]wjw mȝʿ.t ḫrw

Inscription under the offering-table:

1ḫȝ tȝ 2ḫȝ ḥnḳt 3ḫȝ kȝ 4ḫȝ ȝpd

Offering list - lowermost row:

Inscription in the first scene:

[…] jrp gs.w […] [ḥȝt] wḏḥw ḥ(n)ḳt ḫt bnr.(t)
ḥtp dj nswt
(j)m(j)-ḫnt
zȝ nswt ẖr.(j)-ḥb(t)

Inscriptions in the second scene:

[…] jn ẖr.(j)-ḥb(t) […] jn.t rd

Inscriptions in the third scene:

jw tȝ ḫpš ȝw […] ḥnḳt
Inscription above the sitting figures:

1[…] sm-priest 2[…] the shrouded one, overseer of the City 3[…] [Wes]er, true of voice. 4[…] favourite one of his heart 5[…] [Tj]uiu.

Inscription under the offering table

1A thousand of bread-loaves,
2a thousand of beer-jars, 3a thousand pieces of beef, 4a thousand pieces of fowl.

Offering list - lowermost row:

Inscriptions in the first scene:

[...] wine, bread-loaves [...], [the best of] the offering-table, beer, and sweet things.
Offering, which the king gives.
The
jmj-ḫnt-priest.
King's son and lector-priest.

Inscriptions in the second scene:

[...] by the lector-priest [...], removing the foot(prints).

Inscriptions in the third scene:

Cake, bread, shoulder of beef, ribs [...], beer.
Translation by Filip Taterka

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