“Then I conceived a man child, and I brought him forth on the fifteenth day of the third month[7] of the season Shemu of the sixth year, at the eighth hour of the day, under the Majesty of the Queen, the Lady of the Two Lands, Cleopatra, Life, Strength, Health [be to her!], 13. [the day] of the festival of ‘things on the altar’ of this holy god, Imhetep, the son of Ptah, his form being like unto that of the son of Him that is south of his wall (i.e. Ptah), great rejoicings on account of him were made by the inhabitants of White Wall (Memphis), and there were given to him his name of Imhetep and the surname of Peta-Bast, and all the people rejoiced in him. 14.

“The sixteenth day of the second month[8] of the season Pert of the tenth year was the day on which I died.  My husband, the priest and divine father of Ptah, the priest of Osiris, Lord of Rastau, the priest of the King of the South, the King of the North, the Lord of the Two Lands, Ptolemy, whose word is truth, the chief of the mysteries of the House of Ptah, the chief of the mysteries of heaven, earth, and the Other World, the chief of the mysteries of Rastau, the chief of the mysteries of Raqet, the Ur-kherp-hem, Pa-sher-en-Ptah, placed me in Am-urtet, 15. he performed for me all the rites and ceremonies which are [performed] for the dead who are buried in a fitting manner, he had me made into a beautiful mummy, and caused me to be laid to rest in his tomb behind Raqet.

“Hail, brother, husband, friend!  O Ur-kherp-hem, cease not to drink, to eat, to drink wine, 16. to enjoy the love of women, and to pass thy days happily; follow thy heart (or desire) day and night.  Set not sorrow in thy heart, for oh, are the years [which we pass] so many on the earth [that we should do this]?  For Amentet is a land where black darkness cannot be pierced by the eye, and it is a place of restraint (or misery) for him that dwelleth therein.  The holy ones [who are there] sleep in their forms.  They wake not 17. up to look upon their friends, they see not their fathers [and] their mothers, and their heart hath no desire for their wives [and] their children.  The living water of the earth is for those who are on it, stagnant water is for me.  It cometh 18. to him that is upon the earth.  Stagnant is the water which is for me.  I know not the place wherein I am.  Since I arrived at this valley of the dead I long for running water.  I say, ’Let not my attendant remove the pitcher from the stream.’ 19.  O that one would turn my face to the north wind on the bank of the stream, and I cry out for it to cool the pain that is in my heart.  He whose name is ’Arniau’[9] calleth everyone to him, and they come to him with quaking hearts, and they are terrified through their fear of him. 20.  By him is no distinction made between gods and men, with him princes are even as men of no account.  His hand is not turned away from all those who love him, for he snatcheth away the babe from his mother’s [breast] even as he doth the aged man.  He goeth about on his way, and all men fear him, and [though] they make supplication before him, he turneth not his face away from them.  Useless is it to make entreaty to him, 21. for he hearkeneth not unto him that maketh supplication unto him, and even though he shall present unto him offerings and funerary gifts of all kinds, he will not regard them.