Relief

The limestone fragment of the architrave presents four lines of hieroglyphic text, incised with deeply sunk relief and displaying elaborate details in the individual signs. One can observe the exaggerated rendering of the claws of the birds, who were, during this time, also given their own baseline, a characteristic of the later First Intermediate Period inscriptions.

The text, which is fragmentary and damaged on all sides, reads: “(1) … [in the] good [western desert], she has taken his hand, he has joined land, he has crossed the firmament and [a royal offering which] the king [gives]… (2) … western desert (necropolis?), he journeyed in peace, after his ka traveled, attaining a very good old age on the [beautiful] road(s)… (3) … I have made offerings, I have attained (the condition) of a revered one, I did not hand a man over to one mightier than he, in order that… (4) … a thousand of linen (alabaster?), a thousand of clothing, a thousand of ointment jars, a thousand of gazelles, a thousand of oxen, a thousand of r(w/A?)-geese, a thousand of T(pr)-geese, a thousand of st-geese and sr-geese, a thousand of mnwt-geese, invocation offerings of bread and beer for him, in the Wag-feast, the Thoth feast…”