Architrave A (405)
Esna 405
- Location: Architrave A
- Date: Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Geta
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Hieroglyphic Text
- Epigraphic Copy: Esna IV/2, Pls. I-II
- Bibliography: Von Lieven 2000, pp. 34-40; Altmann-Wendling 2019, pp. 615-616 (excerpts); Recklinghausen 2020/2022 (for the painted cartouche; non vidi); see also Tempeltexte 2.0
1wnn Rʿ ḥr wbn m bȝẖw
r ḥfd r ḥr.t
sw (m) ʿpy
psḏ(.w) nn ḥȝtỉ
ẖnmw nb Ỉs.t
wbn m-ḫnt=s
sḥḏ.n=f p.t
m wbn=f
sḥḏy
sqdd m Nw.t r ȝḫ.t
ḥȝy.ty […]
[…]=f
m-ʿqȝ n b(w)=f ḏsr
ẖnm.n=f nṯr nṯry
m rn=f n ẖnmw wr
wbn m ỉȝbt.t
ḏȝỉ p.t
nn wrḏ.n=f
dỉ=f sw m ȝḫ.t
m bȝ m 4 ḥr.w
ḥr 2nḥb.t wʿ.t
1 When Re rises from Bakhu
to fly up to the sky,
he is (as) a winged scarab
who shines without cloud cover,
(namely) Khnum, lord of heaven,
who rises within it,
having illumined the sky,
with his rising.
The luminous one (Re),
who sails in Nut to the Akhet,
while the two luminaries […]
[…] he/him,
across from his sacred place.
He united (ẖnm) with the divine god,
in his name of Great Khnum (ẖnmw),
he who rises from the East5,
and sails across the sky,
never tiring.
He reveals himself in the Akhet
as a Ba-ram with four faces
upon 2 a single neck.6
tỉ.t=f ḏsr(.t)
m ỉty nḫt
ḥr mʿbȝ Wȝmmty m ȝ.t=f
zȝ wỉȝ=f r tȝ-ʿnḫ
nw r tȝ m gb.t
rʿ-nb
r snsn sḫm=f šps
ḥm=f m Pr-nṯr m ḥʿʿ
s.t=f pw n rsy
bȝ=f m p.t
ḥr wbn ḥtp
ḥr mȝȝ tp nfr rʿ-nb
His august image
is the mighty sovereign crocodile,7
harpooning Wamemty in his moment;8
who protects his bark until the West,
who returns to the earth from the sky,
daily,
to unite with his august image.
His Majesty is in Per-netjer, in joy,
for it is truly his place;9
while his Ba is in the sky,
rising and setting,
viewing all goodness, daily.
ḥtp ỉtn m mšrw
ỉʿḥ m (ỉt)n=f
ẖnm=f p.t
ḥȝy=f ỉmy.w dwȝ.t
ḫsr.n=f kkw
sr.n=f šzp
m ʿ.t ỉmn(.t)
dỉ(=f) sw m ỉmḥ.t
m ỉȝw n nḥḥ
ỉȝw zp-snw
ỉn ỉmy.w
ỉmn m Ỉtm
3wḥm ms.w m ḫy rʿ-nb
When the sundisk sets in the evening,
the moon is its (substi)tute,
it joins with the sky,
and it lights up those within the Duat;
as it repelled darkness,
so it announced light,
in the Hidden Chamber;
he appears in the grotto
as an old man of eternity.10
‘Praise, praise!’
(So say those who are there)11
He who is hidden as Atum,
3 who repeats births as a child,12 daily.
dỉ=f ʿḥʿ
ḥr psḏ m Nw.t
[…]
ỉwn-ḥʿʿ
psḏ m smd.t
ḥr wḥm qy=f
tp dwȝw nn ȝb
r tr=sn
m spr bȝ=f m ḥr.t
ḥr wḥm msḫʿ.w
m-ʿqȝ tỉ.t=f
m ẖnn=f Ỉtm
m-ḥȝ.t zȝ.w-n=sn
ḥr zȝ ȝḫty.w
ỉmỉ.w dwȝ.t štȝ.t
ḥr ỉr(.t) zȝw [///]
He spends(?) the midday
shining in Nut
[…]
The moon,
who shines on the 15th day,
repeating his form in the morning,
without fail in their seasonality;
When his Ba reaches the sky,
repeating luminous births,
across from his image,
as he approaches Atum,
at the head of the Guardian Deities;13
protecting the luminous stars,
who are within the remote Duat;
carrying out protection […]