Reputnebu

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Fragment of a statue from the mortuary temple of the Niuserre pyramid with the name of Queen Reputnebu; Egyptian Museum Berlin (17438)

Reputnebu was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 5th dynasty and wife of Pharaoh Niuserre .

supporting documents

Her name is so far only known from a single mention on a statue fragment from the mortuary temple of the Niuserre pyramid in Abusir . Other fragments without inscriptions found in the mastaba of the vizier Ptahschepses in Abusir could also have belonged to a statue of Reputnebu.

Origin and family

The ancestry of Reputnebus is unknown. Possibly she was the mother of Niuserre's only known child, Princess Chamerernebti , who later married the vizier Ptahshepses. The family relationship between Niuserre and Reputnebu and Menkauhor , who became pharaoh after Niuserre, is also completely unclear .

tomb

The Lepsius XXIV pyramid, the possible burial place of Reputnebus

The Reputnebu burial site has not yet been identified with certainty. Most likely is the only queen pyramid that Niuserre had built. It is the heavily damaged Lepsius XXIV pyramid in the south of the royal necropolis of Abusir. The building has a base dimension of 31.5 m and an original height of 27.3 m, but now only rises 5 m. On the east side the remains of a small cult pyramid and the mortuary temple are still preserved. The chamber system of the pyramid consists of a corridor leading down from the north side and a centrally located burial chamber. In addition to the remains of the grave equipment, the mummy of a young woman between the ages of 21-23, who is probably the original owner of the grave, was found there. Due to the lack of inscriptions, however, it is unclear whether it is actually Reputnebu.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Ludwig Borchardt : The grave monument of the king Ne-user-re (= excavations of the German Orient Society in Abusir. Volume 1 = Scientific publications of the German Orient Society. Volume 7). Hinrichs, Leipzig 1907, Fig. 88 ( online ).
  2. Miroslav Verner: The pyramids. Reinbek 1999, pp. 355-357.
  3. Eugen Strouhal, Viktor Černý Luboš Vyhnánek: An X-ray examination of the mummy found in pyramid Lepsius no.XXIV at Abusir. In: Miroslav Bárta, Jaromír Krejčí (eds.): Abusir and Saqqara in the Year 2000. Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - Oriental Institute, Prague 2000, ISBN 80-85425-39-4 , pp. 543-550 online .