He said before Pharaoh, "Let the pleasure-boat of Pharaoh be given to me
with its equipment."
The pleasure-boat of Pharaoh was given to him with its equipment; he
embarked, he sailed up, he did not delay, he arrived at Koptos.
Information of it was given before the priests of Isis of Koptos, and
the chief prophet of Isis. They came down to meet him, they took his
hand to the shore. He went up, he went into the temple of Isis of Koptos
and Harpokrates. He caused ox, goose, wine to be brought; he made a
burnt-offering, a drink-offering, before Isis of Koptos and Harpokrates.
He went to the cemetery of Koptos, with the priests of Isis and the
chief prophet of Isis; they spent three days and three nights searching
in the tombs which were in the cemetery of Koptos--all, turning over the
stelae of the scribes of the House of Life, reading the inscriptions that
were on them. They found not the places of rest in which were Ahura and
Merab her son.
Naneferkaptah perceived that they found not the places of rest of Ahura
and Merab her son. He rose from the dead as an old man, great of age
exceedingly. He came to meet Setna, and Setna saw him. Setna said to the
old man, "Thou art of the appearance of a man great of age: knowest thou
the places of rest in which are Ahura and Merab her child?"
The old man said to Setna, "The father of the father of my father told
to the father of my father, and the father of my father told to my
father, that the resting-places of Ahura and Merab her child are by the
south corner of the house of Pehemato, as his name is."
Said Setna to the old man, "Is it not an injury that Pehemato hath done
thee, by reason of which thou comest to cause his house to be brought
down to the ground?"
The old man said to Setna, "Let watch be set over me and let the house
of Pehemato be taken down. If it be that they find not Ahura and Merab
her child under the south corner of his house, may abomination be done
to me."
A watch was set over the old man; the resting-place of Ahura and Merab
her child was found under the south corner of the house of Pehemato.
Setna caused them to enter as great people on the pleasure-boat of
Pharaoh; he caused the house of Pehemato to be built in its former
manner. Naneferkaptah made Setna to discover what had happened: that it
was he who had come to Koptos to let them find the resting-place in
which Ahura and Merab her child were.
Setna embarked on the pleasure-boat of Pharaoh, he went down the river,
he did not delay, he reached Memphis with all the army that was with
him--all. Report was made of it before Pharaoh, he came down to meet the
pleasure-boat of Pharaoh. He caused them to be introduced as great
persons to the tomb where Naneferkaptah was, he caused dirges to be made
above them.
_This is a complete writing, relating of Setna Khaemuast, and
Naneferkaptah, and Ahura his wife, and Merab her child. This ... was
written in the XXXVth year, the month Tybi._
Translation of F. Ll. Griffith.