Chenethapi

Chenethapi is the name of an early Egyptian queen of the 1st Dynasty . It is not documented at the time, but appears only once in a later document.

Chenethapi is one of the few queens whose names are preserved on the Cairo stone . There she is shown as the mother of the king ( Pharaoh ) Djer , other titles are missing. Who her husband was can only be guessed. A possible candidate is a king named Teti I , who, according to the Turin royal papyrus and the list of kings of Abydos, was the direct predecessor of Djer and ruled for only 1 year and 45 days. Her name, which translates as “musician of the (god) Apis”, could indicate an important religious- cultic function in her genealogical role, which is reminiscent of the later title of the king as “his mother's bull”.

literature

Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7 , pp. 16-18 & 378.
Toby Wilkinson: Royal annals of ancient Egypt: the Palermo stone and its associated fragments . Kegan Paul International, London 2000, ISBN 0710306679 .
Wolfram Grajetski: Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary . Golden House Publications, London 2005, ISBN 0954721896 .

Individual evidence

↑ Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt . Page 378.

personal data
SURNAME	Chenethapi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian queen of the 1st dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	around 3000 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 3000 BC Chr.

[1] Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt . Page 378.