Esna 78

• Location: South Face of North Pillar
• Date: Possibly Domitian
• Hieroglyphic Text
• Bibliography: None

ʿnḫ [nṯr nfr]
[ḥwnw] ʿn m ḫprw=f
šw.ty m tp=f
Mnḥy.t m ḥȝ.t=f
m sḏḏ=f n ẖnmw
ỉt nṯr.w

ḫʿỉ m ʿḥ
ḏỉ-ʿ ḥr mṯn
šzp [sw] nb.wy
smn=w ḥp.ty=f
bs=sn […]
[ḥr z]mȝty
r mȝȝ mw.t=sn

sš=f ḥḏ=s
m ḏsr wr
gm=f ḥm=s
hr psḏ.t=s m nḏm-ỉb

mȝȝ=f […]
smn […]=f ḥr tȝ ḏ.t

Live [the good god]
[the youth], beautiful in his form,
double plumes on his head,
Menhyt¹⁸⁵ on his brow,
in his form of Khnum,
father of the gods.¹⁸⁶

Processing from the palace,
setting on the path,¹⁸⁷
the two Lords receive [him],¹⁸⁸
they establish his limits,
the introduce him […]
[upon] the road
to see their mother (Neith).

He opens her shrine,
in great sanctity,
he finds her Majesty,
and her Ennead is pleased at heart.

He sees […]
establishes his […] on earth, forever.

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185. - Note the spelling of ‘Menhyt’ as mn-ḫt.↩︎

186. Descriptions of the king leaving the palace, as in Esna 52 and Esna 74, in which he wears the double plumes of Khnum, with a uraeus (Menhyt) on his brow. Similar text in Esna 56.↩︎

187. Direction quotation of Esna 74, 6.↩︎

188. These two Lords are presumably Thoth and Harsiese (cf. Esna 56), who purify the king in Esna 67, and introduce him to Khnum in Esna 88.↩︎