The Stélé of Revealing

Front

[Front of Stele of Revealing]

Translations of Hieroglyphics

Topmost Register (under Winged Disk)

Behdet (? Hadit ?), the Great God, the Lord of Heaven.

Middle Register - Two Vertical Lines to Left

Ra-Harakhti, Master of the Gods.

Middle Register - Five Vertical Lines to Right

Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, Opener of the doors of Nut in Karnak, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified.

Below Altar

Oxen, Geese, Wine, (?) Bread.

Lowest Register

Saith Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, the Opener of the Doors of Nut in Karnak, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified: — “Hail, Thou whose praise is high, thou great-willed, O Soul very aweful that giveth the terror of him among the Gods, shining in glory upon his great throne, making ways for the Soul for the Spirit and for the Shadow. I am prepared, and I shine forth as one that is prepared. I have made way to the place in which are Ra, Tôm, Khepri and Hathor.” Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified; son of MNBSNMT; born of the Sistrum-bearer of Amon, the Lady Atne-sher.

Back

[Back of Stele of Revealing]

Translations of Hieroglyphics

Eleven Lines of Writing

Saith Osiris, the Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified: — “My heart from my mother, my heart from my mother, my heart of my existence upon earth, stand not forth against me as a witness, drive me not back among the Sovereign Judges, neither incline against me in the presence of the Great God, the Lord of the West. Now that I am united with Earth in the Great West, and endure no longer upon Earth. Saith Osiris, he who is in Thebes, Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, the Justified: — “O Only-One, shining like the Moon; Osiris Ankh-f-na-Khonsu has come forth upon high among these thy multitudes. He that gathereth together those that are in the Light, the Underworld is opened to him; lo, Osiris Ankh-f-na-Khonsu, cometh forth by day to do all that he wisheth upon earth among the living.”

(Translations taken from The Equinox, Volume I, Number VII.)