Chaemwaset (vizier)

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Chaemwaset was an ancient Egyptian vizier of the 20th Dynasty , who ruled Ramses IX under the kings ( pharaohs ) . and Ramses X. officiated. The vizier was the highest state office in ancient Egypt after the king. In the New Kingdom this office was often divided. There was one incumbent in Lower Egypt and another in Upper Egypt .

Chaemwaset is known from various documents from Deir el-Medina and is referred to on a papyrus as the country's vizier . So he held the office for all of Egypt. The text dates to the 16th year of Ramses IX. Chaemwaset is attested by Ramses X in the third year. Chaemwaset was the chief official in tomb robbery trials at the end of the 20th Dynasty.

literature

  • Guido Dresbach: On the administration in the 20th dynasty: the vizier (= royalty, state and society of early high cultures. Vol. 9) Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2012, ISBN 978-3-447-06656-3 , p. 94.
personal data
SURNAME Chaemwaset
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian vizier of the 20th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 11th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 11th century BC Chr.