〈Stele des Khety (Kairo JE 45058)〉 / Stele des Khety (Kairo JE 45058)

An offering that the king gives and Osiris, lord of Busiris, great god, lord of Abydos: an invocation offering to the seal-bearer of the King, the sole friend (of the king), the dignified overseer of the workplace Khety, who says: I am a seal-bearer of the god in making powerless the foreign countries. When I was in the mining region, I inspected it, traversing the foreign lands of Tjenhet. When I was in the houses of the Northerner, I sealed up his treasuries on that mountain of the house of the Horus of the Terrace of turquoise, [having taken (?)] turquoise thence from the mine of the house of Shema. I repeated the carrying from another mine, called The Mine of Horu[s] of [...]tn[...], as that which had come into being for Horus himself. I went with a task of this my lord, and I did as he wished. I am his emissary, an equal to his $jb$-heart, a second to his $ḥꜣ,tj$-heart. I did for him what pleased him, like that which is done for god himself. I punished for 〈him〉 Asiatics in their foreign lands. It was the fear of him that spread respect of me, (it was) his influence that spread terror of me, so that those foreign countries which I have reached called "Hail, hail to his might!"; (it was) the love of him bonding for him the Two Lands, the gods making prosperous his time. I returned in peace to his palace, and I brought to him the best of the foreign lands, consisting of new ore of Bat, shining ore of Ihuiu, hard ore from Menkau, (and consisting) of turquoise 〈of〉 Hererwetet, lapis lazuli of Tefreret, (and consisting) of sahret-stone, which is upon the mountains, silicified wood from the mountain of Hestiu, rentjetj-Mineral from the hill of the desert, (and consisting) of staffs of Rashaawt and black eye-paint of Kehebu.

An offering that the king gives and Osiris, lord of Busiris, great god, lord of Abydos: an invocation offering to the seal-bearer of the King, the sole friend (of the king), the dignified overseer of the workplace Khety, who says: I am a seal-bearer of the god in making powerless the foreign countries. When I was in the mining region, I inspected it, traversing the foreign lands of Tjenhet. When I was in the houses of the Northerner, I sealed up his treasuries on that mountain of the house of the Horus of the Terrace of turquoise, [having taken (?)] turquoise thence from the mine of the house of Shema. I repeated the carrying from another mine, called The Mine of Horu[s] of [...]tn[...], as that which had come into being for Horus himself. I went with a task of this my lord, and I did as he wished. I am his emissary, an equal to his $jb$-heart, a second to his $ḥꜣ,tj$-heart. I did for him what pleased him, like that which is done for god himself. I punished for 〈him〉 Asiatics in their foreign lands. It was the fear of him that spread respect of me, (it was) his influence that spread terror of me, so that those foreign countries which I have reached called "Hail, hail to his might!"; (it was) the love of him bonding for him the Two Lands, the gods making prosperous his time. I returned in peace to his palace, and I brought to him the best of the foreign lands, consisting of new ore of Bat, shining ore of Ihuiu, hard ore from Menkau, (and consisting) of turquoise 〈of〉 Hererwetet, lapis lazuli of Tefreret, (and consisting) of sahret-stone, which is upon the mountains, silicified wood from the mountain of Hestiu, rentjetj-Mineral from the hill of the desert, (and consisting) of staffs of Rashaawt and black eye-paint of Kehebu.