Kenamun

Kenamun was a high official in the time of the ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty under King ( Pharaoh ) Amenophis II. He was, among other things, cattle chief and chief asset manager of Perunefer and thus administered the royal domains in Lower Egypt . The location of Perunefer is controversial in research. The place was in the Delta or was part of Memphis .

supporting documents

Wall painting from Kenamun's tomb (modern copy by Hugh R. Hopgood); Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City (inventory number 30.4.67)

Shabti of Kenamun; Walters Art Museum , Baltimore (inventory number 22.194)

Kenamun is best known for his magnificently painted tomb ( TT93 ) in West Thebes . Among other things, his mother Amenemipet is shown there carrying Amenhotep II, whose wet nurse she was, on her lap. The name of Kenamun's father can no longer be read in the grave.

Frauke Pumpenmeier's assumption that he is the chief asset manager Amenhotep , who was in office under Hatshepsut , is controversial. Not much is known about Kenamun's family. His wife was called Tadedetes. The mayor of This (name not preserved) and the third Amun priest Kaemheriibsen are depicted in his grave. Wolfgang Helck suspects that they were Kenamun's brothers.

It is known from various sources that Amenhotep II placed many civil servants in high positions whom he had known from childhood. Kenamun was apparently one of those officers too. In Abydos a group of shabtis with his name and a model coffin were found with an autobiographical inscription on the inside. Accordingly, he was put in office by the king and rewarded several times by the ruler. He seems to have started his career in the military, accompanied the king on campaigns in Asia and boasted that he had been given a chariot and 50 horses. His grave was deliberately destroyed in ancient times. It seems that at some point Kenamun fell out of favor.

A coffin that is now in the National Archaeological Museum in Florence (inventory number 9477) may have belonged to him.

literature

Marilina Betrò: Kenamun, l'undicesima mummia. Edizioni ETS, Pisa 2014, ISBN 978-88-467-3912-4 .
Wolfgang Helck : On the administration of the Middle and New Kingdom (= problems of Egyptology. Volume 3). Brill, Leiden 1958, pp. 365-367, 479-481.
Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. I. The Theban Necropolis. Part 1. Private Tombs. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1970, pp. 190–194 ( PDF file; 21.9 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. I. The Theban Necropolis. Part 1. Private Tombs. 1970, p. 190.
↑ Frauke Pumpenmeier: A favor from the king: An extrasepulkrales Schabtidepot Qen-Amuns in Abydos (= Studies on the Archeology and History of Ancient Egypt. (SAGA) Volume 19). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-927552-31-3 , pp. 80-81.
^ JJ Shirley: The Power of the Elite: The Officials of Hatshepsut's Regency and Coregency. In: José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Peter F. Dorman (Eds.): Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (= Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) , number 69). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-1-61491-024-4 , pp. 207-208, footnote 120 PDF file; 21.7 MB ; Retrieved from The Oriental Institute on December 23, 2017.

personal data
SURNAME	Kenamun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Senior asset manager in ancient Egypt at the time of the New Kingdom
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	15th century BC Chr.

[PM-1] A ^b Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. I. The Theban Necropolis. Part 1. Private Tombs. 1970, p. 190.

[2] Frauke Pumpenmeier: A favor from the king: An extrasepulkrales Schabtidepot Qen-Amuns in Abydos (= Studies on the Archeology and History of Ancient Egypt. (SAGA) Volume 19). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1998, ISBN 3-927552-31-3 , pp. 80-81.

[3] JJ Shirley: The Power of the Elite: The Officials of Hatshepsut's Regency and Coregency. In: José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Peter F. Dorman (Eds.): Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (= Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization (SAOC) , number 69). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-1-61491-024-4 , pp. 207-208, footnote 120 PDF file; 21.7 MB ; Retrieved from The Oriental Institute on December 23, 2017.