Stela

There are four fragments of this limestone architrave, which presents five lines of hieroglyphic text rendered in deeply sunk relief of alternating sign size and of rather crude execution. The text, translated by Henry G. Fischer, reads as follows: 1. … [I was praised by] the commoners. My lord sent me on his every mission … 2. … [I was loved by] the great. I [made my(?)] house, its columns erected, and (it) being completed with doors of acacia … 3. … I transported with my boat, ploughed with [my span] … 4. … (all this was) not, indeed, by means of the property of my father and mother [but by virtue(?)] of the good that my god did for me. I was one who speaks good and repeats good, who acquires property justly … 5. … in [executing] work [for] my lord, [his] butler[s](?) provisioning me (?) I punished(?) the [for]eigner when he [ro]bbed him. I was loved by all the people whom my lord commanded on the day of str[ife]…