nemau-sha

Updated: July 9, 2026

Years were removed from my limbs: I was shaved, and polled my locks of hair; the foulness was cast to the desert with the garments of the Nemau-sha. I clothed me in fine linen, and anointed myself with the fine oil of Egypt; I laid me on a bed. I gave up the sand to those who lie on it; the oil of wood to him who would anoint himself therewith.

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri : First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty