Intercolumnar Wall C (89-91)

Esna 89

• Location: Facade, Intercolumnar B
• Date: Vespasian
• Hieroglyphic Text
• Bibliography: None

Cartouches of Domitian.

Esna 90

• Location: Facade, Intercolumnar C
  
• Date: Uncertain, probably Nero (cf. Esna 91)
  
• Hieroglyphic Text
  
• Bibliography: el-Sayed 1982, II, p. 633, Doc. 1023a (complete translation); Elgawady 2016, p. 194.

spr m ḥtp r ḥw.t-Mw.t
n mw.t=f wr.t-ḥkȝw
ḫw=s ḥʿw=k
rn=k nḫb(.w)
m nỉw.wt spȝ.wt

štȝ.t wr.t
ỉr=s mk.t=k
sḫr=s sbỉ
r bw ẖr ḥm=k

šzp.tw=k Mnṯw
ẖnm.tw=k Itm m ḥtp
ỉw ỉb=k nḏm(.w)

Arrive in peace to the Temple of the Mother,²²⁷
of your mother, Weret-hekau,
she protects your body,
and your name is inscribed²²⁸
in (all) cities and nomes.

The great, mysterious one:
she performs your protections,
she knocks downs the rebel
wherever your majesty might be.

Montu receives you,
Atum embraces you in peace,
your heart is pleased.

Esna 91

• Location: Intercolumnar C
  
• Date: Nero
  
• Hieroglyphic Text
  
• Bibliography: el-Sayed 1982, pp. 633-634, Doc. 1023b (partial translation); Elgawady 2016, pp. 194-195

The King

¹nsw.t-bỉty
nb-tȝ.wy
(nyrwn krdys […])
²zȝ-Rʿ nb-ḫʿ.w
(krmnyqs […])

¹ King of Upper and Lower Egypt,
Lord of the Two Lands,
(Nero Claudius [..])
² Son of Re, Lord of Appearances,
(Germanicus […])

Montu

³ḏd-mdw n Mnṯw
kȝ nḫt nṯr ʿȝ
wr-pḥty
⁴ẖnm zȝ=f mr=f
m ⁵ ʿnḫ wȝs
ḫnty kȝ.w ʿnḫ.w ḏ.t

⁶[…] m[-bȝḥ] mw.t=k
Mḥ.t-wr.t
ẖnm=k pr-wr
n nb.t Zȝw

šzp=s tw=k m ḥʿʿ
dỉ=s tw=k m ḥr=s
nn ʿnḏ

³ Words spoken by Montu,
strong bull, great god,
great of strength,
⁴ he embraces his beloved son,
with ⁵ life and dominion,
foremost of the living Kas forever.

⁶ […] be[fore] your mother,
Mehet-weret,
may you enter the Per-wer
of the Lady of Sais.

She receives you in joy,
she puts you before her,
without constraint.

Atum

⁷ḏd-mdw ỉn Itm […]
ḥry-nṯr.w
⁸nb wʿ
ḥry-tp tȝ.wy
ḥȝ.t nṯr.w
pȝwty […]
ḫpr ⁹ nṯr.w[…] nṯry.t nb
ḥr sȝ=f

¹⁰ỉỉ.n=k ḥnʿ=ỉ
r ḥw.t-N.t
n Rs.t-ḥw.wt=s
ẖnm=s tw m nḏm-ỉb

ʿq.n=k m bȝ
pr.n=k m rw
sqd.n=k m Wp-wȝ.wt

⁷ Words spoken by Atum […]
Chief of the gods,
⁸ Sole lord,
Chief of the Two Lands,
First of the gods,
Primeval one […]
⁹ all the gods […] and goddesses
came about after him.

¹⁰ You have come with me
to the Temple of Neith,
of Rs.t-ḥw.wt=s²²⁹;
she embraces you in happiness.

As you have entered as a ram,
so you have left as a lion,
having journeyed as Wepwawet.

Before the King and Gods

¹¹mỉ m ḥtp
r s.t n.t mw.t
mȝȝ=k wr.t wsr.t […]
[…] wṯz nfrw=k

¹¹ Come in peace
to the place of the mother,
and see the great, the mighty […]
[…] exalting your perfection.

Heka

¹²ḥkȝ […]

¹² Heka […]

Neith

¹³ḏd-mdw ỉn N.t wr.t
mw.t-nṯr nb.t tȝ-sn.t
¹⁴ỉh.t wr.t ms.t Rʿ
nb zȝw ḫnt N.t

¹⁵tmȝ.t wr.t
ḫpr ẖr-ḥȝ.t
mw.t ḥnʿ ỉt m šȝʿ
¹⁶ṯz(.t) pr.t n nṯr.w rmṯ

ʿȝ-šb.w wȝḏ-ḥw
pʿpʿ¹⁷ [xp]r m wḏḥ

¹⁸dỉ=ỉ n=k ỉȝbt.t r wbn ỉtn
ỉmnt.t r ḥtp=f
tȝ r-ḏr=f ḥtp ḥr-mw=k

¹³ Words spoken by Neith,
Mother of god, Lady of Esna,
¹⁴ the Great Cow who bore Re,
Lady of Sais within the Neith nome.

¹⁵ Great mother,
who came into existence before,
Mother with the Father in the beginning,
¹⁶ who bound the seed of gods and men.

Great of offerings, verdant of food (wȝḏ-ḥw),
who bore ¹⁷ [Khep]ri²³⁰ as a child (wḏḥ).

¹⁸ I give to you the East until the sunrise,
the West until its setting,
the whole land will be loyal to you.