Kaemach

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Kaemach in hieroglyphics
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Ka (i) emach
(Ka (i) em ah)
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(Mein) Ka is in the palace

Kaemach was an ancient Egyptian civil servant who probably lived during the reign of Cheops ( 4th Dynasty ). He may have worked under the vizier Hemiunu as the chief eviction officer in the prince's rank. On the sacrificial plate he is referred to as the head of the Phylen (work units) of Upper Egypt , Great of the Ten of Upper Egypt and the natural son of a king.

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His grave complex (G1223), which is today badly damaged, was excavated in 1904 by George Andrew Reisner . The mastaba has been rebuilt several times, including an annex in the north for another burial. A massive stone building was erected on the east side. The remains of a burial were found in the underground complex. The cult complex contained a badly damaged, walled-up sacrificial slab due to the weather, which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Cairo JE 37725) and was described in detail by Peter Der Manuelian .

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. 589 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Peter Der Manuelian : Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania ‐ Yale Expedition to Egypt, no. 7 , The Peabody Museum of Natural History of Yale University and The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, New Haven and Philadelphia 2003, pp. 54–57 ( PDF; 56, 7 MB ).
  • Peter Jánosi : Die Gräberwelt der Pyramidenzeit (Zabern's illustrated books on archeology), 2006, p. 57.
  • Bertha Porter and Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, III, Memphis , second edition, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1974, p. 59 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1942, pp. 399-400, pl. 19a ( PDF file; 249 MB ); available via Digital Giza

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Jánosi: Die Gräberwelt der Pyramidenzeit , 2006, p. 57.
  2. ↑ George Andrew Reisner (see literature).
  3. ↑ Christian Dereser, Grabarchitektur des Alten Reichs, in: Kemet, Jg. 19, 2010, pp. 30f.
  4. ↑ Peter Der Manuelian (see literature).
personal data
SURNAME Kaemach
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian son of a pharaoh
DATE OF BIRTH between 28th century BC BC and 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 27th century BC BC and 25th century BC Chr.