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my gracious father.

The second month of Per, tlie 19^'', [rose] Amen of Napita ; going eut of tlie great temple, [He] said : « O my » gracious Phrâ ! » [So] He spake unto me, calling me « gra- » cious créature (?) », and then Amen of Pakem, Amen of Pnoubs, the Gods ail jumped for joy. Reacliing the place of the sacrifice, [I] smote the two bulls, I went down unto the pyramid, and lay wrapped there four nights, and made ail kind of offerings, four days. [Then] going up^ He reached the place of the sacrifice, smote the two bulls, [and] entering the, temple, sat upon the chair of state in the House of the Golden Vine (?).

The 24"^, I went up to do [honour] unto Bast of Tel ' , my gracious mother : (h) She gave me Life, a long and happy old âge, Her breast (i) She gave it to me to suck in (token) of victory and happy Life (j); She gave me Her crushing club.

I went into Napita, the 29'^ I caused Amen of Napita to rise : He gave me the whole of Heaven, the whole of Earth, the Nile ail, the IVIen ail. Going up [I] sat on the golden throne; I caused four qemâ-s (k) to be donc unto thee, Amen of Napita, in Napita, and there were thirty-six men in it. Igave thee three great vessels of brass [full of] incense, four jugs [full of] honey^ three ditto of essence ; one image of Amen of Paqem-aten in gold, two of Hor in gold [the three weighing] three ten*, three scent-bottles of electrum, three vials of electrum, seven cups of electrum, making in ail, thirteen [pièces and weighing]

1. A town on the Nile, near Napita; also called Ter' or Tar. (Cf. p. 234 du présent volume].