burg; it gives an excellent description
of the troubles that befell the priest Unu-Amen during his journey into
Syria in the second half of the eleventh century before Christ. The text
reads:

On the eighteenth day of the third month of the season of the
Inundation, of the fifth year, Unu-Amen, the senior priest of the Hait
chamber of the house of Amen, the Lord of the thrones of the Two Lands,
set out on his journey to bring back wood for the great and holy Boat of
Amen-Ra, the King of the Gods, which is called "User-hat," and floateth
on the canal of Amen. On the day wherein I arrived at Tchan (Tanis or
Zoan), the territory of Nessubanebtet (_i.e._ King Smendes) and
Thent-Amen, I delivered unto them the credentials which I had received
from Amen-Ra, the King of the Gods, and when they had had my letters
read before them, they said, "We will certainly do whatsoever Amen-Ra,
the King of the Gods, our Lord, commandeth." And I lived in that place
until the fourth month of the season of the Inundation, and I abode in
the palace at Zoan. Then Nessubanebtet and Thent-Amen despatched me with
the captain of the large ship called Menkabuta, and I set sail on the
sea of Kharu (Syria) on the first day of the fourth month of the Season
of the Inundation. I arrived at Dhir, a city of Tchakaru, and Badhilu,
its prince, made his servants bring me bread-cakes by the ten thousand,
and a large jar of wine, and a leg of beef. And a man who belonged to
the crew of my boat ran away, having stolen vessels of gold that weighed
five _teben_, and four vessels of silver that weighed twenty _teben_,
and silver in a leather bag that weighed eleven _teben_; thus he stole
five _teben_ of gold and thirty-one _teben_ of silver.

On the following morning I rose up, and I went to the place where the
prince of the country was, and I said unto him, "I have been robbed in
thy port. Since thou art the prince of this land, and the leader
thereof, thou must make search and find out what hath become of my
money. I swear unto thee that the money [once] belonged to Amen-Ra, King
of the Gods, the Lord of the Two Lands; it belonged to Nessubanebtet, it
belonged to my lord Her-Heru, and to the other great kings of Egypt, but
it now belongeth to Uartha, and to Makamaru, and to Tchakar-Bal, Prince
of Kepuna (Byblos)." And he said unto me, "Be angry or be pleased, [as
thou likest], but, behold, I know absolutely nothing about the matter of
which thou speakest unto m