hieroglyphics quiz #2

“I wish I had any effective image of a god (§ 10.7), so that I might steal the goods of this peasant from him.”

“Do you intend to step on my clothes?”

“Be patient, that you may learn Maat”

“Life-giver, don’t make one die!”

“My ba should not go: he should wait for me.”

“Make right your voice beside the god: then people will speak according to your thinking”

“Make great your officials, and they will do your laws”

“Your Incarnation should proceed to the houses of writings, that Your Incarnation might see all the hieroglyphs”

“If you have persevered and your heart is firm, you will fill your embrace with your children, you will kiss your wife, you will see your house.”

“I will relate your impressiveness to the sovereign; I will make him become aware of your greatness.”

“I will send you ships loaded with all the fine things of Egypt” (rdj jn.tw “have one fetch” = “send”; ætp.w is a stative).

“He has directed to me what he had, knowing (§ 18.11) I would manage it for him.”

“Don’t let your heart become exalted (§ 16.4), and it won’t become humiliated.”

“Let it be commanded to your humble servant to make a ‘staff of old age’ and to have my son stand in my place”

“If you are lowly, follow a successful man, and let all your conduct be good before the god.”

“Come now (§ 16.7.6), my heart, that I may speak to you and you may answer for me my sentences.”

“If you want your conduct to be good, take yourself away from all that is evil” (mr.k and nfr are both subjunctives).

“You should not repeat gossip.”

“Let your face be bright in the time of your existing”

“You shall part the ways for the gods and be Wepwawet for them”

“He knows (how) to make a lion walk at his back” (rdjt is an infinitive: see § 14.12).

“If you are silent (or “still”), results will happen for you.”

“Your mother Nut has spread herself over you, that she might cause you to be a god, with no enemies of yours in the necropolis”

“I will make you love writing more than your mother; I will make its perfection enter your face. Moreover, it is greater than any office.”

“He is one stout of heart (§ 6.5) when he sees a multitude (of enemies).”

“I used to give water to the thirsty.”

“There came a champion of Retjenu, taunting me in my tent.”

“Then His Incarnation was sending to me with (literally, “under”) gifts of the king’s possession, gladdening the heart of (this) humble servant like the ruler of any foreign land”

“No one ran after me, I did not hear a hue and cry (after me), my name was not heard in the mouth of the herald”

“The water in the river is drunk when you wish; the air in the sky is breathed when you say.”

“He said to him, ‘After the gentleman goes down to the lake like his custom of every day, then you will throw the crocodile of wax after him.’”

“I am one who hates something bad.”

“It is a work that has not been done since the ancestors.”

“Hearts have become greedy (§ 17.7); there is no heart of a man one can rely on”

“Is there something that has happened at home?”

“Can one add a day to a lifetime? Can one subtract from it either?”

“He will rise when it is time”

“There is a gentleman named Djedi, who resides in SNEFRU-Endures.”

“I used to be in it with my siblings”

“The mouth of a man saves him; his speech makes one lenient to him”

“I know that mountain of Bakhu on which this sky rests” — literally, “which this sky rests on it.”

“My hair stood on end (§ 17.6) when I saw it.”

“So this goddess met (§ 20.4) him as he was heading to the lake.”

“She came undressing from her clothes and messing up her hair.”

“He is constantly out in the howling wind, building without a cloak.”

“If the head of the man shakes, you have to put your hand on his head.”

“(How) to make (§ 14.9) a boy accept (the breast) when he doesn’t nurse”

“Surely, people do not exist in any place.”

“Have fetched for me a prisoner whose punishment has been set.”

“Then it was done like all that His Incarnation commanded.”

“Surely, the office has been opened, the land-registers have been taken, and serfs have been made to become landowners”

“The fearful cannot be distinguished from the violent.”

“If you send your messengers for me, I will not come to you.”

“You are not among them; you will not be among them.”

“When you get, give to your brother”

“As for the one who reaches it without doing wrong, he will be like a god there.”

“When a man survives after dying, his deeds will be placed beside him in heaps”

“If you are a leader who is commanding the conduct of a multitude, seek out for yourself every worthwhile deed.”

“The one who is discreet, a shield has been made for him”

“He will be in the sky like the moon.”

“Then it was spoken about in the office of the herald of the northern district”

“I had the hourly temple-staff taught to do their duties, and they were made to know the procedure of every day.”

“Then those works were seen. Then there was excitement over it more than anything”

“A man’s things have been taken from him and given to the one who is outside” — rdj.w is the stative (§ 21.9)

“Then the incarnation of this god was made to appear, with his Ennead united in his wake …. Then the incarnation of this god was made to proceed to the chapel, so that he might occupy his place in the enclosure of gold.”