Ptahshepses (civil servant, 5th dynasty)

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Ptahshepses as scribe

Ptahshepses was an ancient Egyptian official who probably lived and served in the 5th Dynasty. He is best known for his mastaba in Saqqara , which contained numerous statues, some of which were artistically outstanding. Little is known about his actual person. On the statues he carries the title under head of Accountants (SHD jrj mdat), Posh and priests of Hathor and Re . Two statues show him sitting on a chair, a third statue shows him as a scribe (Cairo Egyptian Museum, CGC 28, 54, 77, 81, 83, 207, 83). The statues are all made of limestone. In addition to the statues showing Ptahshepses, there were also at least two statues, each depicting a servant. One of them shows a servant bringing a robe, the other statue a potter (Cairo Museum CG 111, 112).

The mastaba of Ptahsheps is a large building that is about 20 m wide and 37 m long. There is only a small cult chapel and a serdab in the south on the east side. The chapel is undecorated.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Auguste Edouard Mariette : Les Mastabas de l'Ancien Empire. Fragment du dernier ouvrage. Publié d'apres le manuscrit de l'auteur par Gaston Maspero . Vieweg, Paris 1889, p. 132, online
  2. ^ Ludwig Borchardt : Statues and statuettes of kings and private individuals in the Cairo Museum. No. 1-1294. Part 1. Text and plates for Nos. 1–380 (= Catalog Général des Antiquités Égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. ). Reichsdruckerei, Berlin 1911, pp. 28–29, 47–48, 63, 65–67, 139–140 ( PDF file; 66.9 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
  3. ^ Borchardt: Statues and statuettes of kings and private individuals in the Cairo Museum. No. 1-1294. Part 1., pp. 86-87
  4. ^ Mariette: Les Mastabas de l'Ancien Empire , 113
personal data
SURNAME Ptahshepses
BRIEF DESCRIPTION official
DATE OF BIRTH around 2500 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 2400 BC Chr.