Persenet

Persenet in hieroglyphics
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Persenet is the name of an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th dynasty . The reading of her name is uncertain, as the only mention is damaged. She bears both the title of a natural king's daughter and that of the king's wife , but her family relationships cannot be determined with certainty. Due to the location of her tomb, she is generally considered the wife of Pharaoh Chephren . The assumption that the vizier Nikaure would be the son of both is also based only on the immediate vicinity of his grave to that of Persenet.

tomb

Persenet owns the rock grave LG 88 in the central cemetery in Giza . It consists of an elongated main room, which is separated on its west side by two pillars from a smaller room in which the sarcophagus shaft is located. Apart from the names and titles of the deceased, the grave is completely undecorated. The remains of a burial could not 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. 448–449 ( 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.
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. 373–374 ( PDF; 8.9 MB ).
Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Text I, pp. 107-108 ( PDF; 19 MB ).
Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . First section, Volume 1, p. 28 ( PDF; 19 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. 233 ( PDF 30.5 MB )
Joyce A. Tyldesley : Chronicle of the queens of Egypt: from early dynastic times to the death of Cleopatra . Thames & Hudson, London 2006, ISBN 0500051453 .

Individual evidence

^ Reconstruction based on J. Tyldesley: Chronicle of the queens of Egypt . P. 45ff.

personal data
SURNAME	Persenet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	26th century BC Chr.

[1] Reconstruction based on J. Tyldesley: Chronicle of the queens of Egypt . P. 45ff.