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This is an edition of the early Middle Kingdom Egyptian .

Hieroglyphic transcription of the original hieratic text is done with reference to the hieratic as published in 1913 and 1912 as well as the hieroglyphic transcription given in  2015 (but with differences in treating the hieratic). By technological necessity, vertical columns of text have been converted into horizontal lines. Transliteration and translation are my own, but with some consultation of Allen 2015, Nederhof 2006, and Lichtheim 1975, as well as occasional reference to the TLA, for notes and ideas where interpretation was difficult or ambiguous. The original text is separated into sections by coloring the first few words of each section red; the text as given here is divided into these sections. Since this translation is made for use in Wiktionary quotations, it errs more on the side of being literal than literary.

The line breaks here are made for convenience, but comments of numbers in the wiki markup of the hieroglyphic text indicate the original line numbering.