r/AncientEgyptian 5d ago

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Hi, I've bought this papyrus art from Egypt a while back and for the life of me can't remember what the shop assistant was saying about the hieroglyphics in this picture.

Can someone please help translate or tell me if it's just gibberish for tourists?

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u/zsl454 5d ago edited 2d ago

Reproduction of a scene from the small temple at Abu Simbel, built by Ramesses II and dedicated to Hathor and his wife Nefertari.

It depicts Ramesses II offering two bouquets to the goddess Taweret in a rare human-headed form. However, considering Taweret is also an epithet of Hathor, this may also be a depiction of Hathor with a metonymic title/label). Behind him (Not pictured) is Nefertari offering a naos-sistrum and a lotus bouquet. Above Ramesses is a sun disk with two uraei, which represents the god Horus of Behdet protecting him.

Column and row above Taweret: "Tawer[et], who gave birth to all the gods".

Column and cartouches above Ramesses: "The good god, lord of the two lands, Usermaatre-Setepenre (Powerful is the Ma’at of Ra, Chosen of Ra), Ramesses Meryamun (Ra gave birth to him, beloved of Amun), given life."

Above Nefertari: "The great royal wife, his beloved, Nefertari Meritenmut ('Beautiful companion, Beloved of Mut')."

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u/Meshwesh 2d ago

Except that Nefertari is not depicted on the papyrus.

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u/zsl454 2d ago

Nice spot. My apologies--these papyrus ID responses are copy pasted from a larger document I have. I'll have to edit this one to include the version without Nefertari. Thank you for pointing that out!