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Tut's Djed Amulet

MMA replica djed amulet
'Spoken (by) your limbs, to you, weary of heart [that is, dead].
Put yourself on your side
that I may put water under you and bring to you a djed of gold,
and that you may rejoice in it.'
[Translation from Tutankhamun by T.G.H. James, 2001 Metro Books]
The cartouche between the 2nd and 3rd bars displays in a mirror image of this transcription:
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Two vertical columns of text read right-to-left and down on the amulet, but this transcription reads left-to-right in rows.
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