Aanen

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Statue of the Aanen, Museo Egizio , Turin

Aanen , also Anen , was an Egyptian priest, brother of the great royal wife Teje and thus brother-in-law of King Amenophis III.

Aanen was the son of the cattle chief Juja and his wife Tuja . His father came from Ipu ( Achmim ) and was also a prophet of the god Min . Another child of the couple was the king consort Teje. It is also sometimes assumed that the later King Eje II was their child.

In the course of the rise of his family, Aanen received the office of second Amun prophet. In this office he was succeeded by a certain Simut , who was the fourth Amun prophet in the 20th year of the ruler, but later rose to become the second Amun prophet.

Aanen died shortly before the 30th year of the reign of King Amenophis III. His grave ( TT120 ) is in Abd el-Qurna in Thebes- West. His mother Tuja mentions her son on her outer box-shaped coffin. The connection between Aanens and Tuja is only known from this name.

A standing figure from Aanens is now in the Museo Egizio in Turin (No. 5484). It has a height of 1.42 meters and is dressed in a panther skin corresponding to the official costume of the Sem priests , which is additionally provided with a star pattern to indicate Aanen’s great astronomical knowledge. The statue contains the inscription:

“The Hereditary Prince, Count, the sealer of the Lower Egyptian king, who is allowed to approach his master, very popular in the royal house and always in favor in the palace, a Father of God, pure in hands, a reading priest who knows the nature of heaven, the greatest the spectator in the Temple of Re, sempriest in the Upper Egyptian Heliopolis, who leads affairs to their order and calms the gods with his voice, the second prophet of Amun, Aanen. Justified . "

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nicholas Reeves : Akhenaten, Egypt's False Prophet , Thames and Hudson, London 2001, ISBN 0-500-05106-2 , p. 58.
  2. ↑ Arielle Kozloff and a .: Egypt's dazzling sun - Amenhotep III and his world - , Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, Cleveland 1992, ISBN 0-940717-16-6 , p. 250.
  3. ↑ Arielle Kozloff and a .: Egypt's dazzling sun - Amenhotep III and his world - , Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, Cleveland 1992, ISBN 0-940717-16-6 , p. 250.
  4. ^ Theodore M. Davis : The Tomb of Iouiya and Touiyiou. London 1907 (Reprint: London 2000, ISBN 0-7156-2963-8 ), p. 18.
  5. ↑ Arielle Kozloff and a .: Egypt's dazzling sun - Amenhotep III and his world - , Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, Cleveland 1992, ISBN 0-940717-16-6 , pp. 249-250, no. 43
  6. ^ Hermann A. Schlögl : Akhenaten. Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-56241-9 , p. 17.
personal data
SURNAME Aanen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian religious scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century BC BC or 14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th century BC Chr.