Qaneith

Qaneith in hieroglyphics
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	Stele of the Qaneith

Qaneith (also Qa-Neith ) was an ancient Egyptian member of the royal family or co-consort under King ( Pharaoh ) Den ( 1st Dynasty ).

supporting documents

Her name can be found on a polished limestone stele that was found in one of the side graves of Den's grave complex. On this gravestone she bears two extremely rare titles with uncertain readings. Peter Kaplony reads Seqer-Semtj ("Prisoners of War of Semti") and Djefa-Heru (" Nurturer (?) Of Horus"). Wolfgang Helck, on the other hand, reads Setret-Khastj ("The one distinguished by [King] Khastj") and " Hetemet-Heru " ("The one decorated by Horus"). These were presumably titles of privilege for royal mistresses .

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Qaneith was buried in a side grave in the royal necropolis Tomb U des Den at Abydos . Until the beginning of the 2nd dynasty , it was an ancient Egyptian tradition that some members of the royal family had to follow the ruler to their death.

literature

William Matthew Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part II (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 21). Egypt Exploration Fund et al., London 1901 ( digitization ), panels XXVII, 123; XXX, 123.
Harry M. Stewart: Egyptian Stelae, Reliefs and Paintings from the Petrie Collection, Part II, Archaic Period to Second Intermediate Period (= Modern egyptology series. ). Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1979 p. 4, No. 11, Plate 1, 11, ISBN 0-85668-079-6 .
Barbara Adams, Krysztof Marék Cialowicz: Protodynastic Egypt . Osprey, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-7478-0357-9 .

Web links

Stele of the Qaneith

Remarks

↑ "Semti" is an alternative reading of "Khasti", the maiden name of King Den

Individual evidence

↑ Hermann Ranke : The ancient Egyptian personal names. Vol.?, Augustin, Glückstadt et al. 1935, 1952, 1977, p. 319, online as PDF
↑ B. Adams, KM Cialowicz: Protodynastic Egypt. Oxford 1997, p. 64, fig. 45.
↑ Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , p. 120.

personal data
SURNAME	Qaneith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Qa-Neith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian queen and consort of the pharaoh Hor Den
DATE OF BIRTH	around 29th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 29th century BC Chr.

[3] "Semti" is an alternative reading of "Khasti", the maiden name of King Den

[HeRa-1] Hermann Ranke : The ancient Egyptian personal names. Vol.?, Augustin, Glückstadt et al. 1935, 1952, 1977, p. 319, online as PDF

[2] B. Adams, KM Cialowicz: Protodynastic Egypt. Oxford 1997, p. 64, fig. 45.

[4] Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , p. 120.