Intercolumnar Wall D (116-118)

Esna 116

• Location: Facade, intercolumnar wall D
• Date: Domitian
• Hieroglyphic Text
• Bibliography: None

Cartouches of Domitian.

Esna 117

• Location: Facade, intercolumnar D
  
• Date: Probably Domitian
  
• Hieroglyphic Text
  
• Bibliography: Elgawady 2016, p. 206; Kaper 2003, pp. 235-236; el-Sayed 1982, Doc. 1034.

[…] wbn m Nwn
N.t wr wr.w
ḥȝ.t nṯr.w pw
ḫpr m ḥȝ.t
wbn m Nwn
ỉw tȝ m kkw
ḥḏ tȝ
m pr=s

bẖ.n=s zȝ=s
r bẖ tȝ r-ḏr=f
m ḫy nfr
nn ḥr-ḫw=f

wȝḏ-tȝ
m pr=f
m rn=f n ṯwtw[…]

[…] who rises from Nun,
Neith, greatest of the great,
that means first of the gods,
who came about in the beginning,
who arose from Nun,
while the earth was in darkness,
the earth shone (ḥḏ tȝ)
at her emergence.

She bore (bẖ) her son,
to illumine (bẖ) the whole earth,
as a good child,
without peer.

The earth becomes verdant (wȝḏ tȝ)
at his emergence,³⁰⁹
in his name of Tutu (twtw) […]

Esna 118

• Location: Intercolumnar Wall, D
  
• Date: Domitian
  
• Hieroglyphic Text
  
• Bibliography: Elgawady 2016, pp. 206-207; el-Sayed 1982, pp. 626-627, Doc. 1011; Kaper 2003, pp. 236-237.

Title

¹ỉr(.t) mḏ n mw.t=f
snfr ḥʿ.w n ỉt=f

¹ Doing ointment for his mother,
beautifying the body of his father.

The King

²nsw.t-bỉty
(ỉwtgrtr ksrs)
³zȝ-Rʿ
(tymdns ḫwỉ)

⁴wnn zȝ-Rʿ
(tymdns ʿnḫ-ḏ.t)
m snn n šsmw
ḥr ḫrp ḫȝw nb n tȝ-nṯr
sw mỉ ḥr
ḥrỉ psḏ.t nw ỉs.t

King of Upper and Lower Egypt,
(Autokrator Caesar)
Son of Re
(Domitian Augustus)

While the son of Re,
(Domitian, living eternally)
is in his form of Shesemu,
offering all ingredients from God’s Land,
he is like Horus,
chief of the Ennead of the Laboratory.³¹⁰

Tutu

twtw wr [zȝ] N.t
nṯr nṯry
nb nmt.t

ḥdy=k r s.t
[…] mw.t=f
pẖr […]
[…]k nḫy […]

mry dỉ ʿnḫ-ḏd-wȝs
snb ȝw.t-ỉb nb
mỉ Rʿ

Tutu the great, [son] of Neith,
divine god,
lord of steps:

May you fly to the place
[of] your mother,
and travel around […]
you […] protector [of …]

Beloved of the one who gives
all ʿnḫ-ḏd-wȝs, health, and happiness,
like Re.

Neith

⁸ḏd-mdw ỉn N.t wr.t
mw.t-nṯr ⁹nb.t tȝ-sn.t

mw.t n Rʿ
¹⁰qmȝ ḫn.ty
ỉr nṯr.w nw pȝwty.w

¹¹mw.t-nṯr
ḫpr m ḥȝ.t
qmȝ tȝ
ỉr nṯr.w pȝwty.w
ỉwty snw=s

p.t mḥ.tw m nfrw=s
tȝ ʿpr.tw m […]=s
ḥw.wt-nṯr.w ẖr ʿḫm.w=sn

⁸ Words spoken by Neith the great,
Mother of God, ⁹ Lady of Esna.

Mother of Re,
¹⁰ who created the two crocodiles,
who made the primeval gods.

¹¹ Mother of God,
who came about [in] the beginning,
who created the earth,
who made the primeval gods,
without her peer.

Heaven is filled with her beauty,
the earth is equipped with her […],
temples bear their statues.