Night

After night was the wife of the Egyptian scribe Kenherchepeschef . She is known from a will in which she disinherited some of her children . The document is considered to be evidence of the high status of women in ancient Egypt .

Naunacht married the 54-year-old Kenherchepeschef when she was twelve. She gave birth to eight children in her second marriage. At the time of Ramses V she had the scribe Amunnacht draw up a will in which she left the inherited fortune of her first husband to only four of these children. The other four were disinherited for not looking after their old mother. The will of the Naunachts was found in the workers' settlement of Deir el-Medina and is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford . It shows that ancient Egyptian women were entitled to dispose of their own inheritance and to independently bring lawsuits in court.

literature

Jaroslav Černý : The Will of Naunakhte and the Related Documents . In: The Journal of Egyptian Archeology . tape 31 . Egypt Exploration Society, London 1945, p. 29-53 .

Pierre Grandet : Dame Naunakhte et sa succession . In: Egypte; Afrique et Orient . tape 25 . Center, 2002, ISSN 1276-9223 , p. 19-30 .

Hermann A. Schlögl : Ancient Egypt: History and culture from the early days to Cleopatra . Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54988-8 , pp. 314 .

Web links

Testament of the night in the Ashmolean Museum

personal data
SURNAME	Night
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wife of Kenherchepeschef
DATE OF BIRTH	13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	12th century BC Chr.