ABSTRACT
Nay, but thou art a scribe of the Two Great Gates,2 one that reporteth the needs of the lands (to the king), goodly and fair to him that seeth it.3
Say not: “ Thou hast made my name to stink before others and before all.” Behold, I have only told thee what it is to be a Mahir; I have traversed for thee the land of Retenu.4 I have led before thee the foreign countries all together, and the towns in their order (?). Incline thyself to us 6 and look at it calmly, that thou mayest be found able to describe them (in the future) 6 and that thou mayest be accounted by (us ?) a . . . counsellor.
