Kachenet (I.)

Kachenet (I.) in hieroglyphics
Kachenet (Ka chenet) k3 ḫnt

Relief from the tomb of Kachenet (I.)

Kachenet (I.) was an ancient Egyptian official from the beginning of the 5th Dynasty (around 2600 BC). He is best known from his rock tomb in Hemamieh . It is one of the earliest systems of this type from ancient Egypt in the province. In the course of the further 5th dynasty and in later times this type of grave became the predominant type in the province among the officials who could afford such facilities.

Kachenet carried a number of titles, including head of the palace ( ḫrp-ˁḥ ), head of the orders , head of the phyls of Upper Egypt , head of the royal people and head of the serpentine valley ( sšm-t3-w3ḏjt ). He was therefore a district administrator. His wife was called Chentikaues and was a royal acquaintance and a priestess of Hathor . The daughters Jufi, Meresanch, Hetepheres, Cheredet and the sons Junka, Sechemka and Kachenet appear in the grave as children. The latter is perhaps identical to Kachenet (II.) and succeeded his father as district administrator in the Upper Egyptian Schlangengau.

The rock grave of the two has an entrance in the north that leads to a long hall that is about 15 m long and is decorated with reliefs . In the south there is another corridor that leads to the east and west and forms a kind of exit in the west. The reliefs in the rock grave show Kachenet and his wife in front of the sacrificial table, in front of cattle or while supervising a shipyard.

literature

• Ahmed El-Khouli , Naguib Kanawati : The Old Kingdom Tombs of El-Hammamiya. Australian Center for Egyptology, Sydney 1990, ISBN 0858377020 , pp. 54-66.
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume V. Upper Egypt: Sites. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1939, p. 7 ( PDF; 15.5 MB ).

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