Puimre

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Puimre in hieroglyphics
Q3 G43 M17 G17 N5

Face of Puyemre, Tomb of Puyemre MET 30.4.213 EGDP012999.jpg
Face of the Puimre from the tomb TT39 ; Drawing by Hugh R. Hopgood; Metropolitan Museum of Art , (inventory number 30.4.213)
Picture of Seniseneb from the tomb of Puimre; Drawing by Norman de Garis Davies ; Metropolitan Museum of Art , (inventory number 30.4.211)

Puimre ( Puiemre ) was a high ancient Egyptian dignitary under the ruling queen ( pharaoh ) Hatshepsut and her successor Thutmose III. He held the position of second priest of Amun .

Its origin can be easily reconstructed from various inscriptions. His father was a certain Puia, but nothing more is known about him. Puimre was the son of the royal nurse Neferiah, who was perhaps a nurse of Thutmose II . In his inscriptions he describes himself at least twice as the king's foster child , which makes it clear that he grew up as a child at the royal court. His wife was a certain Seniseneb , who in turn was the daughter of the high priest of Amun, Hapuseneb . Seniseneb was Amun's admirer and thus held an important religious office. So Puimre was married to a powerful family. Two sons are testified; one of them, Mencheper, was a priest in the mortuary temple of Thutmose III. Not much is known about Puimre's tenure, but various inscriptions indicate that he was involved in various building projects of the ruler. He died under Thutmose III.

Puimre is best known for his magnificent grave TT39 in Thebes, decorated with reliefs . Graves decorated with reliefs are otherwise not very common at this time.

literature

  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. I. The Theban Necropolis. Part 1. Private Tombs. 2nd revised and expanded edition. Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1970, pp. 64, 71–75, map IV ( PDF file; 21.9 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
  • JJ Shirley: The Power of the Elite: The Officials of Hatshepsut's Regency and Coregency. In: José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Peter F. Dorman (Eds.): Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (= Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. (SAOC), number 69). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-1-61491-024-4 , pp. 200–204 ( PDF file; 21.7 MB ); Retrieved from The Oriental Institute .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. I. The Theban Necropolis. Part 1. Private Tombs. 2nd Edition. Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1970, p. 71.
personal data
SURNAME Puimre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION second priest of Amun
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th century BC Chr.