Inscription north of the entrance

One whom the king loves is one who wishes him to live; he is one who wishes him to prosper, one who wishes him to exist in this land eternally, as Re exists in the horizon; one whose servants will not make a burial in this tomb, neither his children nor his brethren nor his ka-servant. As for the one who will act (evilly) in spite of this, restrain them for me on account of it, as one who lives for the king. For he is his opponent, he is his contestant, the one who might conspire against him. A judgement will be pronounced against him on account of it by [the Majesty] of the Great God. As for this my tomb for eternity, I have made it on account of being provided by the king more than anyone else. The king has caused that I received a place for it in a clean area in the sacred land in the district […] enclosure of Osiris. His Majesty wished more than anything that I should ascend to the god. His Majesty wished more than anything that I should become an effective spirit near the god, His Majesty wished more than anything that I should be noble near the great god, because I was noble with the king more than anything. As for this my tomb for eternity, I have made it as a solid place for my limbs in my house of eternity [when] I was a nobleman of the king. It is the scribes who made it (the tomb) pleasing to his heart, it is the craftsmen who made this tomb of mine […] a beautiful burial burial for the courtier, the controller of the palace, Mer[efnebef].

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