Tomb of
Menna, TT69
Khonsu, TT31 Rekhmire, TT100
Nakht, TT 52
-TRANSITIONAL TOMBS: KHERUEF
TOMB OF RAMOSE
Tomb of Meryre I:
‘Adoration to you, O [Heka]-Aten, given life forever continually. May he
cause the seeing of Aten each time he appears. Adore him so that he may
listen to what you say.’ …
‘Adoration to you, O Heka-Aten, given life forever continually. May he give
a tomb chapel for the one who prepared it, that the Ba may rest upon its
corpse in the place of continuity. For the Ka of the favourite of the Lord
of the Two Lands, the fanbearer at the king’s right hand, Meryre, justified.’
‘Adoration to your Ka, O one who lives on Maat, Lord of the Two Lands,
[Akhenaten]’
‘Your rising is perfected, O Heka-Aten, given life forever continually. O
living Aten, without another except for him, who makes eyes healthy with
his rays, the one who makes all that exists! You appear from the eastern
horizon of the sky just to bring life to all you have made…’
‘Adoration to you, O Waenre! [Akhenaten] I give adoration to the height of
heaven and I propitiate the one who lives on Maat’
Deceased being rewarded or promoted
Royal visit to temple
Royal family eating
Tribute of nations
Family?
Tomb of Meryre II:
‘Giving praise to the ruler when he sets in the western horizon of heaven…
may he give fragrant breeze to the Ka of the king’s true scribe … Meryre’
‘When you set in life, the land is worshipping you, the east and the west are
giving you adoration, O Heka-Aten, given life forever continually, as you
set, alive…’
‘Adoration of Heka-Aten, living Aten, lord of love, who gave birth to
himself by himself ’
‘Adoration to your Ka, O [Akhenaten], good ruler, beloved of Aten, the
great Nile of the entire land, at seeing whom they live, O Waenre
[Akhenaten], beloved like Aten. May Re give to you myriads of jubilees at
each rising of his, to protect the one whom the Aten bore’
Beset amulet from Amarna
Bes amulet from Akhenaten’s tomb
Beset Collar, University College Swansea
“Adoration in heaven, acclaim in the great palace, applause in
the midst of the hall. The two banks of Horus are in joy.
[Amun] is on the great throne. He rises as [Amun-Re lord of
heaven]. He lets Amenhotep III (given life) endure, giving
him his lifetime, united with eternity, his years totalling
hundreds of thousands. The mayor and vizier, Ramose,
justified. Your lord Amun praises you in your house of living.
[The gods, the Lords of the West] proclaim their love of
you, for you have offered a royal offering to [Amun]-Re-
Horakhty, Atum, lord of Heliopolis, his eye, his hand, and
his body, to Osiris President of the Westerners, to Hathor,
the Above the desert, to Anubis, the lord of the Sacred Land,
[and to the gods, the lords] of the Netherworld.”
-Tomb of Ramose, Transverse Hall
“Beautifully you appear from the horizon of heaven, O living
Aten who initiates life-
For you are risen from the eastern horizon and have filled every
land with your beauty;
For you are fair, great, dazzling and high over every land,
And your rays enclose the lands to the limit of all you have
made;
For you are Re, having reached their limit and subdued them
<for> your beloved son;
For although you are far away, your rays are upon the earth and
you are perceived.”
-Great Hymn to the Aten, Tomb of Ay, Amarna
“May the Good God live, who takes pleasure in Truth, Lord
of all that Aten encompasses, Lord of Heaven, Lord of
Earth, Aten, the living, the great, who illumines the Two
Lands, may the Father live: “Re lives, Horakhty, who rejoices
on the horizon in his name of ‘Shu who is in Aten’”, who is
given life forever and ever, Aten…”
-Earlier name of the Aten
“Re lives, ruler of the Horizon, who rejoices on the Horizon
in his name of ‘Re the Father who has returned as Aten”
-Later name of the Aten
