Iasen

Iasen , also Jasen , was an ancient Egyptian official in the 3rd millennium BC. His official titles were overseer of six tenants of the Great House , so probably domain administrator, keeper of the royal decrees , superintendent of the Wab priests , adviser , acquaintance of the king and priest of Cheops . His wife was named Meretites, his son Meryanch. A person named Nebuhotep may be a daughter of Jasen. As a priest of Cheops he was active in the king's cult of the dead.

His grave

His stone mastaba (G 2196), which can be assigned to the 5th or 6th dynasty, was excavated in 1912 by George Andrew Reisner in the necropolis of Giza . With its rock tomb chapel it borders directly on the grave of Penmeru (G 2197). The mastaba contained 12 grave shafts. A shaft (A) was in the northwest corner of the burial chapel. In the coffin chamber was a sarcophagus carved out of the rock with a male skeleton, which is probably Iasen. In the west wall of the burial chapel is a life-size statue of the owner of the grave carved out of the rock in a niche. The walls of the chapel are decorated with impressive multicolored reliefs. Among other things, they show Iasen in front of a sacrificial table looking at the sacrificial bread. Together with his wife and son, he monitors, among other things, drovers and lists.

literature

Peter Der Manuelian : The graves of high officials in Giza. In: Zahi Hawass (ed.): The treasures of the pyramids. Weltbild, Augsburg 2004, ISBN 3-8289-0809-8 , pp. 213-215.
Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 1: Abû Rawâsh to Abûṣîr. 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Jaromír Málek . The Clarendon Press / Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1974, p. 82, maps XI and XXVI ( PDF file; 19.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
George Andrew Reisner , Clarence Stanley Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-1913. In: Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. Volume 13, Institut français d'archéologie orientale (IFAO) , Cairo 1914, pp. 250–251 ( PDF file; 4.53 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
George Andrew Reisner: A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume 1. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1942, pp. 365-366, Figure 149 ( PDF file; 249 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .
William Kelly Simpson (Ed.): Mastabas of the Western Cemetery: Part 1. Sekhemka (G 1029); Tjetu I (G 2001); Iasen (G 2196); Penmeru (G 2197); Hagy, Nefertjentet, and Herunefer (G 2352/53); Djaty, Tjetu II, and Nimesti (G 2337 X, 2343, 2366). Giza Mastabas, Volume 4, in collaboration with the “Pennsylvania-Yale Archaeological Expedition to Egypt”, Museum of Fine Arts , Boston 1980, ISBN 0-87846-156-6 , pp. 16–23, plates XXXIII – XLV, Figure 27 –38 ( PDF file; 66.6 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .

Web links

Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University: Iasen (G 2196)
Thierry Benderitter / Osirisnet: Tombs of Ancient Egypt . From: osirisnet.net 2013–2017, accessed September 10, 2017.

Individual evidence

^ WK Simpson: Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, part l. Boston 1980, pp. 16-23. A detailed description of the mastaba that meets all expectations (especially the description of the reliefs in the burial chapel) comes from Thierry Benderitter / Osirisnet: Tombs of Ancient Egypt . From: osirisnet.net , 2013-2017, accessed September 10, 2017.
↑ GAReisner, CS Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-1913. 1914, pp. 227-252.
↑ Large-format illustrations of individual reliefs can be found in Peter Der Manuelian: The graves of high officials in Giza. Augsburg 2004, pp. 213-215.

personal data
SURNAME	Iasen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jasen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian official
DATE OF BIRTH	between 27th century BC BC and 23rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	between 26th century BC BC and 22nd century BC Chr.

[1] WK Simpson: Mastabas of the Western Cemetery, part l. Boston 1980, pp. 16-23. A detailed description of the mastaba that meets all expectations (especially the description of the reliefs in the burial chapel) comes from Thierry Benderitter / Osirisnet: Tombs of Ancient Egypt . From: osirisnet.net , 2013-2017, accessed September 10, 2017.

[2] GAReisner, CS Fisher: Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-1913. 1914, pp. 227-252.

[3] Large-format illustrations of individual reliefs can be found in Peter Der Manuelian: The graves of high officials in Giza. Augsburg 2004, pp. 213-215.