〈Stele des Montuhotep (Cambridge E.9.1922)〉 / Stele des Montuhotep (Cambridge E.9.1922)

O living ones who are on earth, who shall pass by this tomb, who love life and hate death, may you say: "May Osiris Khentamenty transfigure Mentu[hotep]." I was, after all, the first of his generation, a leader of his troops, one who found the (right) phrase when he was asked for it, giving the answer at once and to the point; a cool one who acquired bread in his time, one whose conduct replaced him a mother at home (lit. "within") and a father who would (say): "Do and find out, my son!"; one of good character, whom his nature taught like a like a child who is brought up by a father, but actually I had become an orphan. I brought forth cattle, I raised bulls, (and) I developed my business from my goat(s). I built a house and dug a pond: The priest Mentuhotep. A thousend (of) bread and beer, a thousand (of) bulls and fowl, a thousand (of) alabaster (vessels) and (pieces of) linen, a thousand (of) all things from which the god lives, for the ka of the dignified priest Mentuhotep, born of Hathoremhat. His beloved wife, the dignified Senet, born of Hapi. His truly beloved father, the dignified god's seal-bearer, Neferperet, born of Renesankh. His beloved mother, the dignified Hathoremhat, born of Beneret. Speisebedarf His sister, Renesankh. His sister, Nebetta. The nurse, Rehutut. His son, Neferperet His daughter, Hathoremhat. The (female) servant, Ita. The (female) servant, Idi. His daughter, Renesankh. The (female) servant, Senet. The royal servant, Shema. The (female) servant, Neferperet.