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Token ID IBcBMsFaMzYWQkgGtEcYOFVQ064

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Glyphs artificially arranged

mḏḥ =j wjꜣ.PL ꜥꜣ.PL n(.w) tp jtr.w n Jmn Mw.t Ḫns(.w) jn (j)r(.j)-pꜥ(.t) ḥꜣ.t(j)-ꜥ ḥm-nṯr-tp-n(.j)-Jmn Bꜣk-n(.j)-Ḫnsw

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de
Ich habe große Prozessionsbarken auf dem Fluß für Amun, Mut und Chons gezimmert, der Regent und hohe Priester des Amun, Bak-en-chons.
en
I carpentered great rivergoing barques,
for Amun, Mut and Khonsu.
By the member of the pꜥ.t, count,
high priest of Amun, Bakenkhons.
Dating (time frame):
Ramses II. Usermaatre-Setepenre
Comments

  • The three barques whose construction is narrated at the end of Bakenkhons’ text are, like the temple, objects that facilitate communication between inner and outer worlds. Both barques, flagpoles, and obelisks are among the elements that are visible outside the temple and the city. Grallert (Bauen - Stiften - Weihen [ADAIK 18], Berlin 2001: vol. I, 259) discusses the prestige attributed to constructing barques in 18th Dynasty biographies; barques are usually mentioned first and always closely associated with the king’s image. In Bakenkhons’ text they are the culmination, extending the temple’s reach beyond its precinct. Barques are also unusually mentioned in the inscriptions on the single obelisk; Bakenkhons’ text may cite this too (Urk. IV, 1552, 3–10; Grallert 2001: I, 325, n. 2).

    Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood (Data file created: 11/17/2022, latest revision: 11/17/2022)

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Roberto A. Díaz Hernández, with contributions by Altägyptisches Wörterbuch, Lisa Seelau, Elizabeth Frood, Peter Dils, Daniel A. Werning, Token ID IBcBMsFaMzYWQkgGtEcYOFVQ064 <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/token/IBcBMsFaMzYWQkgGtEcYOFVQ064>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 19, Web app version 2.2.1.1, 3/6/2025, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: 4/1/2025)
(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/sentence/token/IBcBMsFaMzYWQkgGtEcYOFVQ064, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: 4/1/2025)