Rawer (head of the works)

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Rawer in hieroglyphics
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Rawer
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Rawer was a high ancient Egyptian official of the Old Kingdom , around 2300 BC. BC who is known from his tomb in Giza . He was the head of all the king's work and thus managed important royal building projects. Its exact date is not certain.

Rawer is only known from texts in his mastaba. They convey the name and title of Rawer. Among other things, he was the head of all the king's work , the support of the panther people , reading priest and perhaps head of the troops .

The mastaba of Rawer is a massive limestone building, about 36 × 15 × 5.5 m in size. The construction is solid and has no chambers. In front of the mastaba there is a cult chapel on the east side and a serdab next to it . At the cult chapel there is a passage that leads under the mastaba into the burial chamber. The burial chamber is decorated with paintings, which are poorly preserved and described by the excavator Selim Hassan , but not drawn or photographed.

The exact dating of Rawer is uncertain. Decorated burial chambers do not appear until the end of the 5th dynasty . Rawer dates to the end of the 5th dynasty, or later, the 6th dynasty.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Selim Hassan: Excavations at Gîza V: 1933-1934 . With Special Chapters on Methods of Excavation, the False-Door, and Other Archaeological and Religious Subjects. Cairo: Government Press, Cairo 1944, pp. 293-297. on-line
  2. ^ Nigel Strudwick: The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom. London 1985, ISBN 0-7103-0107-3 , pp. 114-115.
personal data
SURNAME Rawer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of all the king's work
DATE OF BIRTH 24th century BC BC or 23rd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.