Sir E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was Keeper of the British Museum's department of oriental antiquities from 1894 until his retirement in 1924. Carrying out many missions to Egypt in search of ancient objects, Budge was hugely successful in collecting papyri, statues and other artefacts for the trustees of the British Museum: numbering into the thousands and of great cultural and historical significance. Budge published well over 100 monographs, which shaped the development of future scholarship and are still of great academic value today, dealing with subjects such as Egyptian religion, history and literature.
First published in 1912, this work is the second of two volumes which deal explicitly with ancient Egyptian literature. This volume contains Egyptian texts, with English translations, taken from the Seven Stelae which originally stood in a group at the great temple at Gebel Barkal. The texts describe areas of the history of Egypt, including the principal events which took place in the kingdom of Napata from c.750 B.C. to 500 B.C. Also including a number of other texts and a range of detailed images and hieroglyphics, this classic work will be of interest to scholars and students of Ancient Egyptian literature, language and history.
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THE CONQUEST OF EGYPT BY THE NUBIAN KING P-ĀNKHI-MERI-ȦMEN.
1. The first day of the first month of the season Akhet,1 of the twenty-first year of the reign of the Majesty of the King of the South and North,
who liveth for ever.
The decree which the Majesty spake :—
Hearken to [the account] of what I have done beyond [my] ancestors. I am a king of the South, the emanation of the god, the living conception of Tem,2 [who] on coming forth from the womb was decreed a Governor whom those who were of a higher princely rank should fear. [His father knew and]
2. his mother understood that he was to be a Governor1 [when he was] in the egg, the beneficent god, the beloved of the gods, the son of Ba, the work of his hands
One came and said unto His Majesty,” The Prince of “the West, the great Ḥā Prince in Neter,2 Tafnekhth, “in the nome of …… [and] in the nome of Ka- “ḥeseb,3 [and] in Ḥāp,4 [and] in ……,
“3. [and] in Ān,5 [and] in Per-nub,6 and in the nome “of White Wall.1 He hath taken possession of the “whole of the West Country, from the lands of the “swamps to the [Fortress of] Thet-Taui,2 [he] hath “sailed up the river with a very large number of “soldiers, all the lands on both sides of the river have “joined themselves to him, and the Ḥā princes, and the “Governors of the cities and towns which have temples in “them, are like dogs as they keep near his feet.3 None “of the fortified cities hath shut its gates [against him] in
“4. the Nomes of the South. The city of Mer-Tem,4 “the city of Per-
,5 the city of “Neter-Het-Sebek,1 the city of Per-Mātchet,2 the city “of Thekansh,3 and every town of the West Country “have unbolted the gates by reason of their fear of “him. And having turned to the Nomes of the East “Country they also opened [their gates] to him even “as did those [of the West Country], Het-Bennu,4 “Taiutchait,5 Het-suten,6 Per-neb-tep-ȧḥ.7 Yerily
“5. Suten-henen is beleaguered, and he hath made “himself like [a serpent] with the tail in the mouth “(i.e., he hath completely surrounded it). Those who “would come out he will not allow to come out, and “those who would go in he will not allow to go in, “by reason of the fighting which taketh place every “day. He hath thrown his soldiers round about it “everywhere, every Ḥā prince knoweth well his [section “of the] wall, and as concerning the Ḥā Princes and “the Governors of the Temple-cities, every man sitteth “down upon his [own] division (or district).”
And [His Majesty] hearkened [to the words of this report]
6. with greatness (i.e., boldness) of heart, [he] smiled, [and] his heart was glad.
And the Princes, and the Ḥā Princes, and the generals of the army who were in their cities sent messages to His Majesty every day, saying, “Wilt thou “remain silent and ignore the Land of the South and “the Nomes of the kingdom [whilst] Tafnekhth carrieth “[all] before him, and findeth no man to oppose his “might?
………
“7. the Ḥā prince of Het-urt1 hath thrown down “the fortifications of the city of Neferus,2 and hath “himself laid waste his own city, being afraid lest he “would capture it from him, [and hath departed] to “invest another city; verily he hath departed to “become a guardian of his feet,3 he hath forsaken the “water4 of His Majesty,5 and he standeth with him “like one of his [own men in]
“8. the nome of Oxyrhynchus, and he giveth to “him1 tribute, according to the dictates of his heart, of “everything which he hath found.”
And His Majesty sent a message to the Ḥā Princes and Generals of the army who were over Egypt,2 the Captain Puarma and the Captain Las (?)-mer-sekni, and every Captain of His Majesty who was over Egypt, [saying], “Bring the troops together quickly, set the “men in battle array, surround [the city] . . .
“9. seize its people, and its cattle, and its boats on “the river, prevent the husbandmen from going out to “the fields, prevent the ploughers from ploughing t...
