Koptos river – I then cut him in two parts, and put sand between the parts, that he should not appear again.
“Na.nefer.ka.ptah then went to the place where he found the box.
I He uncovered a box of iron, and opened it; he found then a box of born and opened that; then he found a box of sycamore wood. And opened that; again, he found a box of ivory and ebony, and opened that; yet, he found a box of silver, and opened that; and then he found ‘ a box of gold; he opened that, and found the book in it. He took the book from the golden box, and read a page of spells from it.
He enchanted the heaven and the earth, the abyss, the mountains, and the sea; he knew what the birds of the sky, the fish of the deep, and the beasts of the hills all said. He read another page of the spells, and saw I the sun shining in the sky, with all the gods, the full moon, and the stars I in their shapes; he saw the fishes of the deep, for a divine power was I present that brought them up from the water. He then read the spell I upon the workers that he had made, and taken from the haven and I said to them, ‘Work for me, back to the place from which I came.’
Koptos river – And they toiled night and day, and so he came back to the place where I sat by the river of Koptos; I had not drums nor eaten anything, and I had done nothing on earth, but sat like one who is gone to the grave.
See this book
“I then told Na.nefer.ka.ptah that I wished to see this book, for E which we had taken so much trouble. He gave the book into my hands, and when I read a page of the spells in it, I also enchanted heaven and Kearth, the abyss, the mountains, and the sea. I also knew what the birds of the sky, the fishes of the deep, and the beasts of the hills all said.
