Chuenre

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Chuenre in hieroglyphics
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Chuenre
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Scribe statue of Chuenre in the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston

Chuenre was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty . He was a son of Pharaoh Mykerinos and his wife Chamerernebti II.

Chuenre owns the MQ 1 rock tomb on the west side of the Mykerinos Cemetery in Giza . Room A of the tomb is decorated with reliefs showing, among other things, Chuenre together with his mother. In addition, a small scribe statue was found in this room , which was probably originally placed in the Serdab of the Tomb and which is now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston . A sarcophagus made of rose granite was found in a shaft in room B.

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 , p. 536 ( 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.
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, pp. 293-294 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I . Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 152, 226-227, 310, Figure 132 ( PDF; 249.8 MB ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Andrew Reisner: The Servants of the Ka. The Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 32, Boston 1934, p. 12, Fig. 10 ( PDF; 3.6 MB )
  2. ↑ Clarence S. Fisher: New Egyptian Galleries . The Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 12, Boston 1914 ( PDF; 0.5 MB )
personal data
SURNAME Chuenre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 26th century BC BC or 25th century BC Chr.