Ry (Egyptian official)

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Ry in hieroglyphics
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Relief from the tomb of Ry; Egyptian Museum Berlin (ÄM 7275)

Ry was an ancient Egyptian dignitary at the end of the 18th or the beginning of the 19th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ).

Ry is best known for the blocks in his tomb from Saqqara , which were found during the 19th century and found in various museums around the world. Most of them ended up in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin . Ry bore the title head of the archers and head of the horse . This made him an important man in the military hierarchy.

His grave was found in Saqqara in 2013, but little of the decoration was preserved. The name of the owner of the grave was not known. Only a comparison of the preserved decorative elements with reliefs in various museums made it possible to identify the grave owner. The tomb of Ry consists of a courtyard that is about 8 by 8 meters. The entrance is on the east side and there is an entrance to a small burial chapel on the west side. The courtyard has a grave shaft that leads to the burial chamber. The mud-brick burial chapel was once decorated with limestone blocks. They show offering bearers, but also Ry and his wife Maia at the offering table. Another fragment (Berlin) shows him in front of a deity. On the west side there was a stele in a niche, which is now in Berlin.

literature

  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr. 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Jaromír Málek . Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1981, ISBN 0-900416-23-8 , pp. 715-716 ( PDF file; 33.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
  • Nico Staring: Keys to unlocking the identity of "Tomb X": Introducing Horemheb's Army official, Ry. In: Saqqara Newsletter. No. 16, 2018, pp. 31–46 ( PDF file; 7.99 MB ); Retrieved from the University of Leiden .
  • Nico Staring: Piecing together the dispersed tomb of Ry at Saqqara. In: Egyptian Archeology. No. 54, Spring 2019, pp. 41–45.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 2: Ṣaqqâra to Dahshûr. Oxford 1981, p. 715.