〈Stele des Amenyseneb (Louvre C 12)〉 / Stele des Amenyseneb (Louvre C 12)

Osiris-Chontamenti, Herr von Abydos. Ptah, Stellvertreter des Re. Upuaut von Unterägypten, Herr des heiligen Landes. Upuaut. Harsiese. Upuaut von Oberägypten, Mächtiger der Beiden Länder. An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris Khentamenti, great god, lord of Abydos, so that he may give an invocation offering of milk (?), bulls and fowl, akh-hood and power in the necropolis to the ka of the overseer of phyles of Abydos, Amenyseneb, justified, begotten of Waemkau, born of the lady of the house, Nebetit; he says: The coming of the vizier's scribe, Seneb, son of the vizier, to summon me in a task of the vizier. I went with him, and I found the overseer of the city, the vizier, Ankhu, in his office. Then this official placed an order in front of me, saying: "See, it is ordered that you clean this temple of Abydos; artisans have been assigned to you for its need, and hour-priesthood of the temple of this nome and (of) the magazines of the god's offering(s)." Then I cleaned it, the house below and the house above, its walls on the outside and on the inside; draftsmen filled 〈it〉 with pigment and figures of (?) clay, renewing what the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, 𓍹Kheperkare𓍺 (i.e. Sesostris I), justified, had made. Then the Protector of Egypt came to occupy his seat in this temple, the deputy of the overseer of the treasury Sa-inheret following him. Then he thanked me more than anything, saying: "How fortunate is he who had done this for his god!" And then he gave me 10 heaps of offerings, topped off by datecakes and half a calf. Then an official of the kap came traveling northward. These works were inspected. And one rejoiced over them more than anything.