Minchaef

Minchaef in hieroglyphics
Minchaef / Chaefmin (Min chaef / Chaef Min) Mn.w ḫˁ = f ( ḫˁ = f Mn.w ) He appears, the god Min

Minchaef (according to another reading Chaefmin ) was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th dynasty . He was a son of Pharaoh Cheops , his mother may have been Henutsen . At an unknown time, he held the office of vizier and was thus the highest official after the king. He probably died during the reign of Cheops' successor Radjedef or in the first years of the reign of Chephren .

Minchaef owns the double mastaba G 7430-7440 in the east cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . Here a sarcophagus of the deceased made of rose granite was found, which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

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. 456 ( 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.
• Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia. Second section, 4th vol., Plate 82d ( PDF; 16.4 MB ).
• Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia. Text I, p. 85 ( PDF; 19 MB ).
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, p. 195 ( PDF 30.5 MB ).
• George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I. Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 205-207, Figure 7, 115, ( PDF; 249.8 MB ).
• William Stevenson Smith : The Coffin of Prince Min-khaf. In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology. Vol. 19, 1933, pp. 150–159 ( PDF; 3.5 MB ).