Hathor-Neferhetepes

Chabausokar in hieroglyphics
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Hathor-Neferhetepes (also Hat-Hor-nefer-hetepes ), with the second name Tepes , was the wife of the high official Chabausokar ( 3rd dynasty ).

Name and titles

The name of Hathor-Neferhetepes is based on the goddess Hathor . Her middle name, Tepes, is unusual . She also bore the title Rechet-nesu ("royal confidante"), first documented at the beginning of the Old Kingdom .

supporting documents

Relief- decorated false doors from Hathor-Neferhetepes have survived . They show the deceased once sitting at a sacrificial table and twice on the left and right of the false door in a standing pose. She wears a skin-tight robe and a shoulder-length curly wig . The chapels of Chabausokar and Hathor-Neferhetepes are among the earliest surviving, relief-decorated cult chapels from ancient Egypt.

dig

Like Chabausokar, Hathor-Neferhetepes was buried in the mastaba S3037 in Saqqara .

literature

Dieter Arnold : Lexicon of Egyptian architecture . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2000, ISBN 3-491-96001-0 , pp. 47-48.
Michel Baud: Djéser et la IIIe Dynastie (= Collection: Les grands pharaons. ) Pygmalion, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-85704-779-7 , p. 475.
Ann Macy Roth: Social Change in the Fourth Dynasty. The Spatial Organization of Pyramids, Tombs, and Cemeteries . In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. No. 30, 1993, ISSN 0065-9991 , pp. 33-55.
William Stevenson Smith: The art and architecture of ancient Egypt . 2nd edition, revised by Kelly Simpson. Penguin Books, New York NY 1981, ISBN 0-14-056014-9 , pp. 63-67.

Web links

Funerary chapel of Hathor-Neferhetepes

personal data
SURNAME	Hathor-Neferhetepes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hathor-nefer-hetepes, Tepes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wife of Cha-bau-Sokar in the time of Djoser
DATE OF BIRTH	27th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	27th century BC Chr.