Egyptian · AI translation
Letter to the dead (Naga ed-Deir 3500)
English for the 1 passage of this work that the Atlas of Ancient Myth, Magic in the Ancient Texts and a study of demons and angels quote or cite, and which the library holds in no published English. The numbers are the edition's own references.
1.1–1.5
⸢zẖꜣ[,w]⸣ n Ḥtp-nb[≡j] Ttj-snb[.w]
A letter to Hetepnebi and Tetiseneb.
jn rrj jw mꜣn! =k nn-n jw⸢,w⸣[t] jw =ṯn ꜥꜣ
Is it pleasant(?) for you to see these wrongs while you are here?
sk jqr =k js n =k ꜥꜣ ꜥby ẖ⸢r⸣[d]⸢.w⸣ =k
Yet your excellence is yours here, ... (ꜥby) your children.
nḏr =[k] ḥm m[w]t pn mwt,t tn
So seize this dead man and this dead woman!
jm mꜣꜣ =⸢s⸣[n]j zp =f ḏr-ntt n wn.t wn qꜣi̯ ḫrw r =ṯnj ꜥꜣ
Let them not see his case, since there is no one here who raises his voice against you.
Translator's note. A letter to the dead. Line 1: which name is the sender and which the recipient is uncertain. Line 2: rrj is unexplained (perhaps 'pleasant'); mꜣn! is marked as a scribal oddity for mꜣꜣ 'see'; jw,wt 'wrongs' is partly restored. Line 3: ꜥby is unexplained. Line 5: zp=f, 'his case', is uncertain, and so is the subject of mꜣꜣ. jm mꜣꜣ=snj may instead be jmi̯, 'let': 'Let them see his case.'
The whole original: the Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (open Naga ed Deir 3500).