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Above is the text of a small stele that I saw in a book, perhaps with errors, as some of the signs are indistinct. The left five columns read from right to left, and refer to a person drawn on the stele. The right column reads left to right, and refers to Ra Harakhti (who the book misnamed Horus), also drawn on the stele. The right column says, "Said by Ra Harakhti, good god, lord (of) heaven."
This is another small stele. There were indistinct signs here, too. There were two persons drawn on this one, a man and a woman. The two columns which I show on the far right were under the other six columns, among the two persons.
Above is an inscription from one end of the stone sarcophagus of Amenhotep II. Between the two columns of text is a picture of Isis.
Above is an inscription from a fragmentary stele of Horiraa (a priest, as it says in the inscription), as shown in Cracking Codes by Richard Parkinson. The language is apparently late Egyptian; the last two signs (left) on the second line are "true of voice" (deceased), which is spelled differently in middle Egyptian.
Above is an inscription from an "opening of the mouth" tool, currently in the British Museum. Usertsn (Sesostris) I (apparently) mentions his great-great-grandfather Mentuhotep II as his "father."
[more inscriptions, soon]