Esna 56

• Location: Next to the South Pillar
  
• Date: Probably Domitian
  
• Hieroglyphic Text
  
• Bibliography: None

ʿnḫ [nṯr nfr]
ṯnỉ […]
ỉm=s
ẖkr.tw m ḫkr.w n ẖnmw
tȝ-ṯnn nfr-ḥr
nb šw.ty-wr

Live the good god,
distinguished […]
in it,
equipped [with] the regalia of Khnum ():
Tatenen, beautiful of face,
lord of the great double-plumes;⁵⁵

ḫʿỉ m ʿḥ m nḏm-ỉb
r mȝȝ ỉt-ỉt.w
ḥnʿ psḏ.t=f

He who appears from the palace in joy,
to see the father of fathers,⁵⁶
along with his Ennead.

swʿb s(w) nb.wy
msỉ s(w) nb.ty
spr=f ḥw.t-ỉt
m ʿb wr
(r) snỉ-tȝ
n nṯr ʿȝ m kȝr=f

The two lords⁵⁷ purify him,
the two ladies guide him,⁵⁸
he reaches the Temple of the Father(?)⁵⁹
in great purity,⁶⁰
to) kiss the ground
for the great god⁶¹ in his shrine.

pr-wr m wnf
pr-nw m tfn
sḥ.w ỉpn m ršw […]
ḏr ʿq s(n) nb=sn

The Per-wer is delighted,
the Per-nu is ecastat[ic],
these chapels are in joy […]
since their lord enters them.

[…ỉt=]f nḥp
dỉ=f n=f nswy.t
m ḥqȝ m tȝ
ḫnty ʿnḫ.w ḏ.t

[…] his [father], the Potter,
he gives to him kingship,
as ruler of the earth,
foremost of the living, eternally.