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The Stela of Suti and Hor

Books on Egypt have the annoying habit of never telling us what the MDW NTR written on artifacts actually says. The Egyptologist will tell us that this is a picture of "a God being worshipped" or "two men sitting at a offering table" yet never tell you what all the writing on either side and maybe inside the picture is saying. The MDW NTR on the above stela is concerned with two brothers who were architects in the reign of Amenhotep III and directed the works of Amun in Luxor. They were living people whose presence has been confirmed historically. This stela is no. 838 in the British Museum The following is a translation of the MDW NTR on the stela.

Hymn to the Sun

Salute to Amun when he rises as Heru of the eastern horizon by Amun’s master of the works Suti and by master of the works Hor. They say:

    “Homage to you who is the perfect Ra of each day, who rises each morning without respite, and who is the Khepri burdened with work. We have your rays in our eyes and are not able to perceive them. The most pure gold is not comparable to your splendor. Carver whom you carved yourself, you have cast your body, O sculptor who has never been sculpted. You who are alone in your species, you who travel over the heights of eternity, and under whose Image are the ways of millions, each is your splendor, such is the splendor of the firmament, your colors are more brilliant than its colors.

When in navigating you traverse the heavens, all men contemplate you, you continue (under the earth as well) hidden to their eyes. You present yourself in the morning as a daily task. The navigation of your barque is impeccable under Your Majesty. In a short day you devour a space of millions of hundreds of thousands of miles. Each day is for you but a moment and after traveling through it you retire. In the same way you accomplish the hours of the night. You carry out this course without respite from your efforts.

          All eyes see by your grace and they cease to see when Your Majesty is retired. You put beings in movement in order to emerge. Your rays create the morning; they open the eyes that awaken. You lie down in the regions of Manu and at the same instant they sleep as if they were dead.

          Homage to you Disk Aten of the day, who has created humans and who has given them life. Grand falcon of speckled plumage who has come in order to raise himself up by his own means, appearing of his own accord without being put in the world, Heru the elder who is in the middle of celestial Nut, for whom gestures of joy are made at the rising as at the setting.

          Founder of what produces the ground, Khnum, Amun of humans, who carries along with him the inhabitants of the Two Lands from the greatest to the smallest. Beneficent mother of the Neter and of men, patient and untiring when he makes them in incalculable number. Valiant herdsman who leads his beasts. Their shelter, he who gives them life.

          He who hurries, he who runs, he who accomplishes his revolutions, Khepri of the illustrious birth, raising his perfection in the belly of celestial Nut; giving life to the Two Lands from his Disk Aten, the primordial of the Two Lands, who created himself and who saw himself while he was creating himself.

          Unique master who reaches the extremities of the earths each day, viewed by those who circle on them, emerging as a figure who contemplates from on high what passes during the day. He composes the seasons with months, sets the atmosphere ablaze to his liking, and makes the freshness of the air to his liking. He causes the human body to extend or to retract. The whole earth gesticulates like the monkeys who awaken to his rising each day to salute him.”

          The master of works Suti and the master of works Hor says:

          “I am master in your Apit and director of works in your official sanctuary which your son has made whom you love. The master of the Two Lands, Nebmaat-Ra, gifted with life. My master has confided in me the direction of your monuments knowing my vigilance. I have been an energetic master in what concerns your monuments, having done things in conformity with your desires because I know that you take pleasure in the observances of MAAT. You make great he who practices it on earth and as I have practiced it you have made me great. You have accorded me favors on earth in Karnak because I take part in your retinue when you show yourself in public. I am an equitable man who has a horror of injustices. There is no man who prides himself on the words of a liar. In particular my brother, my double with whom I share opinions, because he came out of the belly (at the same time as me) on this blessed day.

          The director of Amun’s works in Luxor, Suti-Hor says:

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