Pehenuka

Pehenuka in hieroglyphics
	Pehenuka's false door

Pehenuka was an ancient Egyptian official in the 5th Dynasty who served as a vizier . In addition, he also held other important offices, such as that of treasury manager , manager of the double barn , manager of all the king's work and manager of the king's recorder .

Pehenuka is mainly known from its mastaba in Saqqara (Mariette number D 70), which is one of the largest private mastabas in Saqqara. Large parts of the grave decoration were copied and published in the middle of the 19th century under Karl Richard Lepsius (Lepsius grave number LS 15). The wife of Pehenuka named Hetepheres, a son named Iti and his eldest son Ptahchuu also appear in the tomb.

The reliefs of the mastaba were brought to the Egyptian Museum in Berlin after they were found, and the false door was severely damaged after they were found.

Pehenuka probably dates to the 5th dynasty. Next to his mastaba is that of Sheepsi, who served under King Sahure and was probably his father. Pehenuka therefore dates about a generation later.

literature

Auguste Mariette , Gaston Maspero : Les mastabas de l'Ancien Empire: Fragment du dernier ouvrage de A. Mariette, publié d'après le manuscrit de l'auteur , Paris 1889, pp. 370–372 (plan of the mastaba)
Nigel Strudwick: The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom. The Highest Titles and their Holders. KPI, London 1985, ISBN 0-7103-0107-3 , pp. 84-85 ( PDF file; 20.4 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr. 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Jaromír Málek . Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-900416-23-8 , pp. 491-492, XLIX map ( PDF file; 33.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .

Individual evidence

^ Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III, part 2. 1981, p. 491.
^ Nigel Strudwick: The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom. The Highest Titles and their Holders. 1985, p. 84.
↑ Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia under drawings of His Majesty the Kings of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, sent to these countries, and carried out during the years 1842-1845 scientific expedition by order of His Majesty. . 13 vols. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849, Volume 2, panels 45–48
↑ Detailed directory of Egyptian antiquity and plaster casts , Berlin 1899, pp. 55, 59 online

personal data
SURNAME	Pehenuka
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	vizier
DATE OF BIRTH	25th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	25th century BC BC or 24th century BC Chr.

[1] Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III, part 2. 1981, p. 491.

[2] Nigel Strudwick: The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom. The Highest Titles and their Holders. 1985, p. 84.

[3] Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia under drawings of His Majesty the Kings of Prussia, Friedrich Wilhelm IV, sent to these countries, and carried out during the years 1842-1845 scientific expedition by order of His Majesty. . 13 vols. Berlin: Nicolaische Buchhandlung, 1849, Volume 2, panels 45–48

[4] Detailed directory of Egyptian antiquity and plaster casts , Berlin 1899, pp. 55, 59 online