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"Tell me, Anup," began the official again, "how was it about that attack on the garden of the heir to the throne?"
Hereabouts also is the tablet from Thebes in honour of Hera, a royal scribe . On this tablet the deceased is represented bearing an appropriate feather sceptre before Nameses the ninth of the twentieth dynasty, who is seated on his throne, under the particular guardianship of the God of truth. The tablet from Thebes marked 593 is that of a judge and his wife, and is dedicated to Osiris and Anup.
Barely had he said, 'The Nile will rise, and that minute the Nile began to rise." "And didst Thou throw stones, Anup?" "How should I dare to throw stones into the garden of the erpatr? I am a simple fellow, my hand would wither to the elbow for such sacrilege." The prince gave command to stop the examination, and when they had led away the accused, he asked the official,
If I had hit the warrior, I should have got a blow of a fist in the belly that would have made my tongue stick out, for I am nothing but an earth-worker, and he is a warrior of our lord who lives through eternity." The heir leaned out from behind the column. They led away Dutmoses, and brought in Anup. He was a short fellow. On his shoulders were scars from club-strokes.
"Eye of the sun," said the man, "vessel of wisdom, Thou knowest best of all that I did not make the attack, only a neighbor comes to me and says he, 'Anup, come up, for the Nile is rising. And I say to him, 'Is it rising? And he says to me, 'Thou art duller than an ass, for an ass would hear music on a hill, and Thou dost not hear it. 'But, says I, 'I am dull, for I did not learn writing; but with permission music is one thing and the rise of the river is another. 'If there were not a rise, says he, 'people would not have anything to be glad about and play and sing. So I say to thy justice, we went to the hill, and they had driven away the music there and were throwing stones at the garden."
They worshiped various divinities: Num, the soul of the universe; Amen, the generative principle; Khom, by whom the productiveness of nature was emblematized; Ptah, or the creator of the universe; Ra, the sun; Thoth, the patron of letters; Athor, the goddess of beauty; Mu, physical light; Mat, moral light; Munt, the god of war; Osiris, the personification of good; Isis, who presided over funeral rites; Set, the personification of evil; Anup, who judged the souls of the departed.
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