His heart was more satisfied with me than with any other of his servants.  Alone I heard every kind of private case, there being with me only the Chief Justice and the Governor of the town ... in the name of the king, of the royal household, and of the Six Great Houses.  The heart of the king was more satisfied with me than with any other of his high officials, or any of his nobles, or any of his servants.  I asked the Majesty of [my] Lord to permit a white stone sarcophagus to be brought for me from Raau.[1] His Majesty made the keeper of the royal seal, assisted by a body of workmen, bring this sarcophagus over from Raau in a barge, and he came bringing with it in a large boat, which was the property of the king, the cover of the sarcophagus, the slabs for the door, and the slabs for the setting of the stele, and a pair of stands for censers (?), and a tablet for offerings.  Never before was the like of this done for any servant. [He did this for me] because I was perfect in the heart of His Majesty, because I was acceptable to the heart of His Majesty, and because the heart of His Majesty was satisfied with me.

[Footnote 1:  On the east bank, opposite Memphis,]

“Behold, I was ‘judge belonging to Nekhen’ when His Majesty made me a smer uat, and overseer of the estates of Pharaoh, and ... of the four overseers of the estate of Pharaoh who were there.  I performed my duties in such a way as to secure His Majesty’s approval, both when the Court was in residence and when it was travelling, and in appointing officials for duty.  I acted in such a way that His Majesty praised me for my work above everything.  During the secret inquiry which was made in the king’s household concerning the Chief Wife Amtes, His Majesty made me enter to hear the case by myself.  There was no Chief Justice there, and no Town Governor, and no nobleman, only myself, and this was because I was able and acceptable to the heart of His Majesty, and because the heart of His Majesty was filled with me.  I did the case into writing, I alone, with only one judge belonging to Nekhen, and yet my rank was only that of overseer of the estates of Pharaoh.  Never before did a man of my rank hear the case of a secret of the royal household, and His Majesty only made me hear it because I was more perfect to the heart of His Majesty than any officer of his, or any nobleman of his, or any servant of his.

“His Majesty had to put down a revolt of the Aamu dwellers on the sand.[1] His Majesty collected an army of many thousands strong in the South everywhere, beyond Abu (Elephantine) and northwards of Aphroditopolis, in the Northland (Delta) everywhere, in both halves of the region, in Setcher, and in the towns like Setcher, in Arthet of the Blacks, in Matcha of the Blacks, in Amam of the Blacks, in Uauat of the Blacks, in Kaau of the Blacks, and in the Land of Themeh.  His Majesty sent me at the head of this army.  Behold, the dukes, the royal seal-bearers, the smer