Penebui

Penebui in hieroglyphics
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	Djer's annual tablet depicting Queen Penebui (red circle).

Penebui was an early Egyptian queen and probably a wife of King Djer during the 1st Dynasty . Your name and title are engraved on several ivory tablets.

identity

On the ivory tablets (so-called annual tablets ), two of which come from the tomb of Djer in Abydos and one from Saqqara , several ceremonies are pictographically represented, including the bringing of several fetishes . The focus of the depiction is the death of two queens. These are shown as busts with women's heads on adorned galleries , with blood emerging from their foreheads (in earlier readings this was mistakenly interpreted as floral decorations or tiara ). The front of the two deceased bears the title of a lady-in-waiting of a higher rank: Weret-hetes ("Great of the Hetes scepter"). This identifies her as a royal consort . Her name is Penebui , which can be translated as "the seat of the two gentlemen". The name of Penebui, and those of their deceased companion (she is entitled Maa-Cheru ( "access to voice"); her name consists of three vaguely written Fish symbols and is no longer clearly legible), is a rare hieroglyph initiated , which is similar to the later Kot symbol Gardiner -F52 and stands for "to die" or "death".

Penebui's death seems to be recorded on the Palermostein in the 4th year window of the Djer. Wolfgang Helck suspects whether the queen died by beheading , since a decapitated lapwing is attached to the figure of a deceased lady-in-waiting on the Annalenstein .

literature

Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the thinite period (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , pp. 119 & 154.
Wolfram Grajetzki: Ancient Egyptian Queens. A Hieroglyphic Dictionary. Golden House Publications, London 2005, ISBN 0-9547218-9-6 , p. 65.

Individual evidence

^ Walter B. Emery : The Tomb of Hemaka (= Excavations at Saqqara ). Government Press, Cairo 1938, p. 39, fig. 8.

personal data
SURNAME	Penebui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pe-nebui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Mother of Pharaoh Semercheti
DATE OF BIRTH	29th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	29th century BC BC or 28th century BC Chr.

[1] Walter B. Emery : The Tomb of Hemaka (= Excavations at Saqqara ). Government Press, Cairo 1938, p. 39, fig. 8.