Kaemsechem

Sarcophagus of Kaemsechem in the Egyptian Museum Cairo

Kaemsechem was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th dynasty . He was a son of the vizier Kawab and his wife Hetepheres II and thus a grandson of Pharaoh Cheops .

Kaemsechem owns the Mastaba G 7660 in the east cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . There was a sarcophagus of red granite found, the now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo is located. The badly damaged reliefs in the grave show Kaemsechem together with his wife, whose name is unknown.

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 , pp. 590-591 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, pp. 52-61, ISBN 977-424-878-3
Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia: based on the drawings of the scientific expedition sent to these countries by His Majesty the King of Prussia Friedrich Wilhelm IV and carried out in the years 1842–1845 , Abth. 1-6 in 12 vol. Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin, 1849-1859. Edition des Belles Lettres, Geneve 1972–1973. ( ULB Halle or The Giza Archives ) Volume I, p. 84 ( text and tables as PDF file ).
Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, pp. 201-202 ( full text as PDF file ).
George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I, Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, p. 208 ( full text as PDF file ).

personal data
SURNAME	Kaemsechem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient egyptian prince
DATE OF BIRTH	26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	26th century BC BC or 25th century BC Chr.