Kawab

Kawab was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty .

family

Its origin cannot be determined with complete certainty. For a long time he was the eldest son of Pharaoh Cheops and his wife Meritites I. considered. According to this view, he was Crown Prince of Cheops, but died during the reign of his father. According to more recent findings, however, he seems to have been a son of Snefru and thus a brother of Cheops.

Kawab was married to his sister or half-sister Hetepheres II , who became Radjedef's wife after his death . The sons of Kawab were Kaemsechem and Mindjedef and possibly Duaenhor . He also had a daughter named Meresanch III. who was the wife of Pharaoh Chephren . Kawab held numerous offices, including that of vizier , the highest official after the king.

His grave

Granite sarcophagus of Kawab from his tomb in Giza

The grave of Kawab is the double mastaba G 7110-7120 in the east cemetery of the Cheops pyramid in Giza . In the sacrificial chapel of this mastaba, fragments of several statues of the Kawab were found, which had apparently been deliberately destroyed. Altogether there should have been between ten and 20 statues, which vary in size from about a quarter to full life size. Among the fragments is the oldest known find of a scribe statue . Another statue of Kawab was found in the Temple of Memphis . Chaemwaset , a son of Ramses II , had it restored and installed there.

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. 586-587 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 52-61.
William Kelly Simpson : Giza Mastabas. Volume 3. The Mastabas of Kawab, Khafkhufu I and II . Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1978, ISBN 0-87846-120-5 ( PDF; 58.8 MB ).

Web links

Kawab at chufu.de ( Memento from April 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ).
The Ancient Egypt Site (English)

Individual evidence

^ Roman Gundacker: A contribution to the genealogy of the 4th dynasty . In: Sokar, No. 16, 2008, pp. 22-51
^ Simpson, Mastabas, p. 7

personal data
SURNAME	Kawab
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	26th century BC Chr.

[1] Roman Gundacker: A contribution to the genealogy of the 4th dynasty . In: Sokar, No. 16, 2008, pp. 22-51

[2] Simpson, Mastabas, p. 7