Anchenespepi II.

Alabaster statue of Anchenespepis II and her son Pepi II; Brooklyn Museum , location unknown.

Anchenespepi II , also known as Anchenesmerire II , was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th dynasty .

family

Anchenespepi did not come from the royal family. Her parents, about whom almost nothing is known, were called Chui and Nebet. She was first with Pharaoh Pepi I married, as well as her eponymous sister Anchenespepi I. Her brother Zau held under Pepi I the post of vizier . A son is known from her marriage to this king: the later Pharaoh Pepi II. After the death of Pepi I, she married again. Her second husband was her nephew Merenre , son of her sister Anchenespepi I and Pepis I. Merenre I died after a few years on the throne. He was followed by Pepi II, who was still a minor at the time of his accession to the throne and for whom Anchenespepi II acted as regent for several years .

tomb

The Queen's Pyramid of Anchenespepi II

→ Main article The pyramid of Anchenespepi II.

For Anchenespepi II. A queen pyramid was built south of the pyramid of her first husband Pepi I. With a side length of 31.20 m, it is the largest of at least eight queen tombs built here. The remains of the pyramid were only discovered by French archaeologists in 1998 . In 2017, a pyramidion and fragments of an obelisk were found near the tomb , which is said to be the largest in the Old Kingdom .

Further evidence

In addition to the area around her pyramid, Anchenespepi is also mentioned on some finds from Abydos , including a door post that also bears her brother's name. Furthermore, her name is mentioned on vessels from a grave in Badari and in a rock inscription Pepis I in Wadi Maghara on Sinai . An alabaster statue in the Brooklyn Museum , which shows Anchenespepi together with her son Pepi II, the shaft of a headrest that was once in Berlin and is now lost, and an alabaster goblet in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York are of unknown origin .

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. 428–429 ( 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. 70-78.
Audran Labrousse , Jean Leclant : New discoveries of the Mission Archéologique Française de Saqqâra (campaigns 2001-2005) . In: Sokar. No. 13, 2006, pp. 33-34.
Jean Leclant, Audran Labrousse: The queens Anchenespepi II and III. The excavation campaigns of 1999 and 2000 by the “Mission Archéologique Française de Saqqâra” (MAFS) at the pyramids of the queens Pepis I. In: Sokar. No. 5, 2002, pp. 28-33.

Web links

Commons : Anchenespepi II. - Collection of images, videos and audio files

The Pepis I family ( Memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
The queen pyramids of the pyramid Pepis I. ( Memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

↑ Nevine El-Aref: Old Kingdom pyramid peak discovered in Saqqara . In: Ahram Online. October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.
↑ Nevine El-Aref: Archaeologists unearth largest-ever discovered obelisk fragment from Egypt's Old Kingdom . In: Ahram Online. October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Anchenespepi II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Anchenesmerire II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	24th century BC BC or 23rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.

[1] Nevine El-Aref: Old Kingdom pyramid peak discovered in Saqqara . In: Ahram Online. October 12, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.

[2] Nevine El-Aref: Archaeologists unearth largest-ever discovered obelisk fragment from Egypt's Old Kingdom . In: Ahram Online. October 4, 2017. Retrieved October 12, 2017.