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Attribution: Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – Reign of Horus-Wahenekh-Intef I; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
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| 1 | REIGN OF HORUS-WAHENEKH-INTEF I |
| 2 | ROYAL TOMB STELA= |
| 3 | 421. This is the stela referred to in the remarkable |
| 4 | passage in the Papyrus Abbott (IV, 514), where it is de- |
| 5 | scribed as bearing a figure of the king standing with one of |
| 6 | his dogs. The name of the dog given in the papyrus, Behka, |
| 7 | is still preserved on the stela. It is a Berber name, and |
| 8 | the stela accompanies it with a translation into Egyptian. |
| 9 | The king stands on the right with his five dogs; before him |
| 10 | were seven columns of inscription, of which only the lower |
| 11 | half is preserved. The first two lines were occupied with an |
| 12 | account of the king’s good works for the gods; among these |
| 13 | we may discern the following: |
| 14 | I filled his (Amon’s) temple with august vases, in order to offer |
| 15 | libations. ....... -———— I built their temples, wrought their |
| 16 | stairways, restored their gates, established their divine offerings for all |
| 17 | eternity. I found? — |
| 18 | aLower portion of a large limestone stela, now about 80 cm. high and 130 cm. |
| 19 | wide; now in Cairo, No. 20512. It was discovered in 1860, by Mariette, in the |
| 20 | brick pyramid of Intef II, at Drah abu->n-Neggah (Thebes). After making an |
| 21 | incomplete and inaccurate copy, Mariette left the stela where he found it, to be |
| 22 | taken by a fellah, twenty years later, and broken up for use in a sikieh. Two |
| 23 | years later some of the fragments were rescued with much difficulty by Maspero, |
| 24 | and installed at Buldq (now Cairo; cf. Guide du Visiteur, 677, and Mariette, Monu- |
| 25 | ments divers, Texte, 15; Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archeology, IV, |
| 26 | 193, 194). Apparently no search has ever been made on the spot for the upper |
| 27 | portion, already lacking in Mariette’s time. His copy was published in Monuments |
| 28 | divers, 49 (p. 15 also); another copy by E. de Rougé (Inscriptions hiéroglyphiques, |
| 29 | 161, 162). I have collated these with a careful copy of the original in Schaefer's |
| 30 | manuscript of the Cairo catalogue. |
| 31 | bOn the Berber name of one of these dogs, see Maspero, Transactions of the |
| 32 | Society of Biblical Archeology, V, 124, and Etudes de mythologie et d’archéologie, |
| 33 | III, 331). The others also bore foreign names, and the ancient scribe has appended |
| 34 | a translation to each. Daressy (Recueil, XI, 79, 80) found a fifth dog; Basset |
| 35 | (Sphinx, I, 87-92) admits a second name as possibly Berber; see also Birch, Trans- |
| 36 | actions of the Society of Biblical Archeology, IV, 172-86. Finally, Maspero explains |
| 37 | another name as Berber (Recueil, XXI, 136). |
| 38 | 199 |
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| 39 | ϩⲟⲟ ELEVENTH DYNASTY: INTEF I [§ 422 |
| 40 | 422. The statement of his good works is followed by a |
| 41 | narrative of his conquest of territory on his northern fron- |
| 42 | tier. He does not state against whom he contended, but it |
| 43 | is of course against the Heracleopolitans, defended by the |
| 44 | princes of Siut (see § 301). It is the only distinct reference |
| 45 | in the Eleventh Dynasty inscriptions to the geographical |
| 46 | location of the northern enemy in the civil wars which raged |
| 47 | between North (Heracleopolis) and South (Thebes) for |
| 48 | at least several generations before the overthrow of the |
| 49 | Heracleopolitans. |
| 50 | 423. 3———— her northern boundary as far as the nome of Aphro- |
| 51 | ditopolis.2 I drove in the mooring-stake® in the sacred valley, I cap- |
| 52 | tured the entire Thinite nome, I opened all her fortresses, I made her |
| 53 | the Door of the North.© |
| 54 | 4———— like a flood, great in possessions, like a sea, splendid for |
| 55 | the glory of Thebes (n° 1), great for the — — —7of this land, which I |
| 56 | myself have bequeathed to my son,d -ⲓ s— There is no lie |
| 57 | that has come forth from my mouth, there is no word like that which |
| 58 | I have spoken. There was no violence! for one (dwelling) upon his |
| 59 | sandy land, nor -ⲉ for one in possession of his paternal property, nor |
| 60 | — — 6———— them forever and ever. |
| 61 | Year ⲟ, when this stela was set ⲙⲣ- by — Horus, Wahenekh |
| 62 | (W>h-<nk), King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Son of Re, In[tef], the |
| 63 | great (sii) |
| 64 | aRead the serpent and feather. That this is the proper reading is rendered |
| 65 | almost certain by the connected data. King Intef is here speaking of the estab- |
| 66 | lishment of his northern boundary. The inscription of Intefoker (§§ 529 ff.) |
| 67 | shows that he ruled as far north as Akhmim, which is directly across the river |
| 68 | from the nome of Aphroditopolis, and the latter is just north of the Thinite nome. |
| 69 | bThis simply means “I landed,” as in § 612, 1. 14; and Papyrus Ebers, 58, 9. |
| 70 | Cf. Sethe, Verbum, 1, 257. |
| 71 | cThis is parallel with the phrase “Door of the South” applied to Elephantine. |
| 72 | Thus the Aphroditopolite nome under this Intef occupied the same frontier posi- |
| 73 | tion in the North as the region of the first cataract in the South (see § 396, 1. 18, note). |
| 74 | Ihaveretained the gender of the pronouns to show this; the Thinite nome ismasculine. |
| 75 | dThis is corroborated by the treasurer Thethi (§ 423G). |
| 76 | ePartially broken out; read ⲥⲃ ⲥ it is evidently a synonym of the first word |
| 77 | (>r with determinative of bowstring), rendered “violence,” with which it is parallel. |
| 78 | £This is the proper reading of the name as shown by 1. 7, where it occurs as |
| 79 | above restored, preceded by the same Horus-name. |
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Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – Reign of Horus-Wahenekh-Intef I. OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Volume I-1/10.2. The Eleventh Dynasty - Reign of Horus-Wahenekh-Intef I.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Volume_I-1/10.2._The_Eleventh_Dynasty_-_Reign_of_Horus-Wahenekh-Intef_I/pages. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/ancient-egyptian/breasted-ancient-records-of-egypt-1906-vol.i-the-eleventh-dynasty-reign-of-horus-42cd9c/10.2.the-eleventh-dynasty-reign-of-horus-wahenekh-intef-i.ocr/. Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – Reign of Horus-Wahenekh-Intef I; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
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