Nubhetepti-chered

Nubhetepti-chered in hieroglyphics
Nubhetepti-chered (Nub hetepti-chered / Nebu hetepti-chered) Nwb ḥtptj-ẖrd / Nbw ḥtptj-ẖrd The gold (= Hathor ) is content, the little one

Nubheteptichered even Nubhetepti-khered (in proper names spelling: Nubheteptichered ), was an Egyptian princess of the 13th dynasty ( Second Intermediate ), the v to the 1750th Lived. Her grave was found at the pyramid of Amenemhat III. in Dahshur right next to the tomb of King ( Pharaoh ) Hor and was untouched.

identity

The princess' identity is uncertain. She may have been a daughter of King Hor. It has not yet been documented with certainty outside of her grave, but there are different queens of this time with the name Nubhetepti, where Nubhetepti-chered, Nubhetepti, the child , or Nubhetepti, the little one means and the name suggests that there was a queen or king's daughter named Nubhetepti who was older.

Her grave

Nubhetepti- chered collar

The grave of this king's daughter is a shaft grave , the superstructure of which is no longer preserved. At the end of the shaft there were two chambers lying one above the other. The upper chamber mainly contained model ceramics, a chest with eight ointment vessels and another chest with staffs, weapons and royal insignia .

Below this chamber was the actual burial chamber. Nubhetepti-chered had been buried in a set of three coffins. There was an outer undecorated rock sarcophagus set into the ground , a central wooden coffin covered with gold sheet and an inner human-shaped (anthropoid) coffin, which had fallen into disrepair when it was found and was not recognized as such. Various jewelry was found on the corpse, such as a neck collar , as well as arm and leg jewelry . Directly next to the corpse, which was only preserved as a skeleton, were again various royal insignia, weapons and staffs that undoubtedly identified the princess as Osiris , king of the underworld. In addition to the sarcophagus, there was also a canopic box covered with sheet gold and containing a set of four canopic canopies .

exploration

The tomb was excavated by Jacques de Morgan in 1894 . The finds are now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

literature

• Jacques de Morgan: Fouilles a Dahchour, Mars-Jiun 1894. Vienna 1895, pp. 107-115.