Iunu (civil servant)

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Iunu (official) in hieroglyphics
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Iunu
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Sa-nesut
S3-nsw.t
son of the king
Slab stela of Iunu.jpg
Stele of Junu

Iunu is the name of a high ancient Egyptian official who lived and served in the 4th Dynasty ( Old Kingdom ) under King Cheops . He is only known from his mastaba in the necropolis of Giza , where a grave slab with an offering table scene was found, which shows his picture and gives his name and title. Accordingly, Iunu was head of the Phyls of Upper Egypt , "Great of the Ten of Upper Egypt" and "King's Son". The former title may suggest that he recruited and supervised workers for building pyramids in Upper Egypt. Workers were organized in phyls . The title “King's Son” is certainly not to be taken literally, but was also a title at that time.

The mastaba of the Iunu in Giza is a massive building without interior spaces. A distinction can be made between several construction stages, with the construction being expanded significantly at a certain point in time. In the north and east, more massive stone layers were grown. Now the building also received some cult rooms on the east side. Here the stele of Iunu was found. The burial chamber was clad with limestone . It can be reached via a shaft in the center of the mastaba and was found robbed.

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. 409 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Hermann Junker (ed.): The mastabas of the 4th dynasty on the Westfriedhof (= Giza I. Volume I). Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna / Leipzig 1929, pp. 169–181 online (PDF; 73.0 MB).
  • Wolfgang Helck : Investigations into the official titles of the Egyptian Old Kingdom. (= Ägyptologische Forschungen (ÄF) No. 18), Augustin, Glückstadt / Hamburg / New York 1954, p. 102.
  • Peter Der Manuelian : Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis (= Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt , Volume 7). Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University. New Haven / Philadelphia 2003, ISBN 0974002518 , p. 98.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ After Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names . Vol. 1, Glückstadt 1935, p. 17, no.29 ( online as PDF file ).
personal data
SURNAME Iunu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian official
DATE OF BIRTH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.