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Bernard Mathieu copies down a particularly important hieroglyphic text engraved on the North wall of the painted façade. This inscription is in two parts and seems to come directly from Hau-Nefer. . In the first section, the inscription tells visitors to honor and respect the tomb and the defunct by reciting the offering prayer: “A thousand breads, a thousand pots of beer for the owner of this tomb, and all that he may lay his hands upon”. The second section, however, warns the disrespectful intruder with the following threat: “He who comes to take but one stone or one brick from this tomb will be judged with me at the court of the Great God Osiris and he will get his dues! This will be seen by all the living and known by all the dead!” It is therefore ironic that Hau-Nefer himself took apart other tombs to build his own…Obviously desecration has always been a hard principle to follow. But beware of this threat come from the other side – does it not call to mind the famous curse of the tomb of Tutankhamon?
© Stéphane Compoint
20031001-057
Bernard Mathieu copies down a particularly important hieroglyphic text engraved on the North wall of the painted façade. This inscription is in two parts and seems to come directly from Hau-Nefer. . In the first section, the inscription tells visitors to honor and respect the tomb and the defunct by reciting the offering prayer: “A thousand breads, a thousand pots of beer for the owner of this tomb, and all that he may lay his hands upon”. The second section, however, warns the disrespectful intruder with the following threat: “He who comes to take but one stone or one brick from this tomb will be judged with me at the court of the Great God Osiris and he will get his dues! This will be seen by all the living and known by all the dead!” It is therefore ironic that Hau-Nefer himself took apart other tombs to build his own…Obviously desecration has always been a hard principle to follow. But beware of this threat come from the other side – does it not call to mind the famous curse of the tomb of Tutankhamon?

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