Niuserre (Prince)

Niuserre in hieroglyphics
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Niuserre was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty . He was a son of Pharaoh Chephren and his wife Meresanch III. He was one of the few sons of Chephren who did not hold the high office of vizier .

tomb

Niuserre belongs to an unfinished rock tomb on the Central Field in Giza . The grave is oriented almost north-south, the entrance is on the northwest corner. The facility consists of a large main room with the dimensions 10.9 × 4.2 × 3.3 m, which houses two pillars. The room remained undecorated, but the walls were still plastered. From the middle of the west wall, a short corridor leads to a small chamber measuring 3.0 × 0.5 × 2.2 m. To the north of the passage to this chamber there is a small niche that was supposed to be made into a false door . In the north-east corner of the main room there is a stone bench, in the north-west corner a shaft leads down to the coffin chamber, in which, however, no remains of a burial could be found.

literature

• Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 475–476 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
• Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 52-61.
• Selim Hassan : Excavations at Giza . Vol. 4, Oxford / Cairo 1932–1960, pp. 185–188 ( PDF; 73.4 MB ).
• Peter Jánosi : Giza in the 4th dynasty. The building history and occupancy of a necropolis in the Old Kingdom. Volume I: The mastabas of the core cemeteries and the rock graves . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3700132441 , pp. 382–383 ( PDF; 8.9 MB ).
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, p. 234 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
• George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I . Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 231-232, Fig. 153 ( PDF; 249.8 MB ).