Raramu

Raramu was an ancient Egyptian palace overseer , Wab priest , acquaintance of the king and funeral priest of Cheops in the 6th Dynasty . His wife was called Anchet, his two sons Kahersetef and Kednes, his daughter Tjez-tjazet.

Grave complex

The stone mastaba (G 2099) with five grave shafts and a serdab was excavated in 1939 by George Andrew Reisner in the necropolis of Giza . Various statues showing Raramu and his family were found in the Serdab. A group of three shows Raramu and Nikauptah, in the middle the little son Kednes. It is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (JE 72 138). A seated statue of Raramu and a couple statue, Raramu and his wife, are in the Toledo Museum of Art (49.4 and 5). A small standing figure showing Kahersetef as a boy is kept in the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond (49.21). Stylistically, the statues can be classified as belonging to the end of the 5th dynasty , and there is an astonishing relationship to the group statues in the tomb of Mesi (G 2009).

literature

Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis. 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, p. 70 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
Ann Macy Roth , William Kelly Simpson: Giza Mastabas, Volume 6. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants: including G 2084-2099, G 2230 + 2231, and G 2240. Museum of Fine Arts , Boston 1995, ISBN 0-87846-385- 2 , pp. 150-154.

personal data
SURNAME	Raramu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Ancient Egyptian palace overseer, Wab priest, acquaintance of the king and funeral priest of Cheops in the 6th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	between 25th century BC BC and 23rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	between 24th century BC BC and 22nd century BC Chr.