with plumes, like Tatenn.  I sat on the throne of Heru-Khuti (Harmakhis).  I was arrayed in the ornaments [of sovereignty] like Tem.  I made Ta-mera to possess many [different] kinds of men, the officers of the palace, the great chiefs, large numbers of horse and chariot soldiers, hundreds of thousands of them, the Shartanau and the Qehequ, who were numberless, soldiers of the bodyguard in tens of thousands, and the peasants belonging to Ta-mera.

I enlarged all the frontiers of Egypt, I conquered those who crossed over them in their [own] lands.  I slaughtered the Tanauna in their islands; the Thakra and the Purastau were made into a holocaust.  The Shartanau and the Uasheshu of the sea were made non-existent; they were seized [by me] at one time, and were brought as captives to Egypt, like the sand in the furrows.  I provided fortresses for them to dwell in, and they were kept in check by my name.  Their companies were very numerous, like hundreds of thousands.  I assessed every one of them for taxes yearly, in apparel and wheat from the stores and granaries.  I crushed the Saara and the tribes of the Shasu (nomad shepherds).  I carried off their tents from their men, and the equipment thereof, and their flocks and herds likewise, which were without number.  They were put in fetters and brought along as captives, as offerings to Egypt, and I gave them to the Nine Gods as slaves for their temples.

Behold, I will also make you to know concerning the other schemes that have been carried out in Ta-mera during my reign.  The Labu (Libyans) and the Mashuashau had made their dwelling in Egypt, for they had captured the towns on the west bank of the Nile from Hetkaptah (Memphis) to Qarabana.  They had occupied also both banks of the “Great River,” and they had been in possession of the towns (or villages) of Kutut[1] for very, very many years whilst they were [lords] over Egypt.  Behold, I crushed them and slaughtered them at one time (i.e. in one engagement).  I overthrew the Mashuashau, the Libyans, the Asbatau, the Qaiqashau, the Shaiu, the Hasau, and the Baqanau. [I] slaughtered them in their blood, and they became piles of dead bodies. [Thus] I drove them away from marching over the border of Egypt.  The rest of them I carried away, a vast multitude of prisoners, trussed like geese in front of my horses, their women and their children in tens of thousands, and their flocks and herds in hundreds of thousands.  I allotted to their chiefs fortresses, and they lived there under my name.  I made them officers of the bowmen, and captains of the tribes; they were branded with my name and became my slaves; their wives and their children were likewise turned into slaves.  Their flocks and herds I brought into the House of Amen, and they became his live-stock for ever.

[Footnote 1:  Perhaps the district of Canopus.]