I despatched inspectors and overseers to the turquoise desert (i.e. Sinai) of my mother, the goddess Hathor, the lady of the turquoise. [They] carried to her silver, gold, byssus, fine (?) linen, and many things as numerous as the sand-grains, and laid them before her.  And there were brought unto me most wonderfully fine turquoises, real stones, in large numbers of bags, and laid out before me.  The like had never been seen before—­since kings began to reign.

I caused the whole country to be planted with groves of trees and with flowering shrubs, and I made the people to sit under the shade thereof.  I made it possible for an Egyptian woman to walk with a bold step to the place whither she wished to go; no strange man attacked her, and no one on the road.  I made the foot-soldiers and the charioteers sit down in my time, and the Shartanau and the Qehequ were in their towns lying at full length on their backs; they were unafraid, for there was no fighting man [to come] from Kash (Nubia), [and no] enemy from Syria.  Their bows and their weapons of war lay idle in their barracks, and they ate their fill and drank their fill with shouts of joy.  Their wives were with them, [their] children were by their side; there was no need to keep their eyes looking about them, their hearts were bold, for I was with them as strength and protection for their bodies.  I kept alive (i.e. fed) the whole country, aliens, artisans, gentle and simple, men and women.  I delivered a man from his foe and I gave him air.  I rescued him from the strong man, him who was more honourable than the strong man.  I made all men to have their rightful positions in their towns.  Some I made to live [taking them] in the very chamber of the Tuat.[1] Where the land was bare I covered it over again; the land was well filled during my reign.  I performed deeds of beneficence towards the gods as well as towards men; I had no property that belonged to the people.  I served my office of king upon earth, as Governor of the Two Lands, and ye were slaves under my feet without [complaint ?].  Ye were satisfactory to my heart, as were your good actions, and ye performed my decrees and my words.

[Footnote 1:  The sick and needy who were at death’s door.]

Behold, I have set in Akert (the Other World) like my father Ra.  I am among the Great Companies of the gods of heaven, earth, and the Tuat.  Amen-Ra hath stablished my son upon my throne, he hath received my rank in peace, as Governor of the Two Lands, and he is sitting upon the throne of Horus as Lord of the Two Nile-banks.  He hath put on himself the Atef crown like Ta-Tenn, Usermaatra-setep-en-Amen, life, strength, health [be to him!], the eldest-born son of Ra, the self-begotten, Rameses (IV)-heqmaat-meri-Amen, life, strength, health [be to him!], the divine child, the son of Amen, who came forth from his body, rising as the Lord of the Two Lands, like Ta-Tenn.  He is like a real son, favoured for his father’s