Horemchauef

Painting from the tomb of Horemchaef

Painting from the tomb of Horemchaef

Horemchauef was a local civil servant from Ancient Egypt of the Second Intermediate Period (around 1700 to 1550 BC). He is best known for his grave in Hierakonpolis and his grave stele , on which he reports on his journey to the royal residence .

Horemkhauef was first overseer of the priests of Horus of Nekhen and fields superintendent . His father Djehuti had almost the same titles; his mother was the royal jewelery Tjet; his wife was the royal jewelery Sobeknacht. The sons Djehuti, Sobeknacht and the daughters Hormaacheru and Hesitef are known as children.

His grave in Hierakonpolis is a small grave complex, but it is one of the few graves of the Second Intermediate Period that have been painted. The painting is only partially preserved today. In the grave appears tracor Sedjemnetjeru , who has probably imagined. A stele was found near the grave (today in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York , July 35, 1955), on which he and his wife are depicted, and on which his family members are also named. The text on the stele contains a longer ideal biography and tells of his trip to the royal court in Itjtaui (probably near the modern village of el-Lisht ), where he presented a new cult image of Horus and his mother (certainly Isis ) at the court in front of the king. received.

The text is of historical importance because it proves that Itjtaui, the capital of the 12th dynasty, was still the royal residence for Egypt at the end of the 13th dynasty .

literature

• William C. Hayes : Horemkhaeuef of Nekhen and his trip to It-Towe. In: The Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 33, 1947, ISSN  0307-5133 , pp. 3-11.
• WV Davies: The dynastic tombs at Hierakonpolis: the lower group and the artist Sedjemnetjeru. In: WV Davies (Ed.): Color and Painting in Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London 2001, ISBN 0-7141-1928-8 , pp. 119-120.