Senachtenre

Name of Senachtenre

Horus name

Meri-Maat
Mry-M3ˁt
lover of the mate

Throne name

Senacht-en-Re
Snḫt.n-Rˁ
Den Re made strong

Proper name

Ahmose
(Ah mose)
Jˁḥ-ms
The moon is born

Karnak Kings List (No.26)

Senacht-en-Re
Snḫt.n-Rˁ
Den Re made strong

Senachtenre ( Senacht-en-Re ) was the throne name of an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 17th Dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ), who was named after Detlef Franke around 1560 BC. Ruled. His personal name was Ahmose , his Horus name Merymaat .

supporting documents

The ruler is only known from a single contemporary monument. These are two fragments of a door jamb and lintel that were uncovered in 2012 near the Ptah Temple in Karnak . Both elements made of “beautiful white limestone from Tura ” were part of a monumental storage gate that Senachtenre had donated to “his father Amun-Re ” according to the inscription . His personal name Ahmose and the Horus name Merymaat are also preserved there.

Before this discovery, the king was often referred to as Senachtenre Taa I. The false birth name Taa goes back to the Abbott Papyrus , where it is prescribed. This was already the opinion of Claude Vandersleyen , who in 1983 pleaded for the name Taa to be deleted for this king.

In addition to being mentioned in the so-called ancestral chamber of the Ach-menu Thutmose 'III. in Karnak Senachtenre is only known from the Abbott papyrus and a record in the tomb of Chabechnet in Deir el-Medina and the sacrificial tablet of a Qen.

His wife could have been Tetisheri , whose mummy bandages the brothers Abd el-Rassul found around 1870 in the cachette of Deir el-Bahari together with royal mummies, especially from the 17th, 18th and 19th dynasties. Under Scheschonq I from the 22nd dynasty, priests had hidden the mummies there to protect them from grave robbers and possibly cleared the graves.

Regency

Despite the rare evidence, he is considered a "contemporary of Apophis " and as a "local prince who was under the supreme command of the Hyksos ruler Apophis". The political situation between the Hyksos and the Thebans seemed to have been largely stable in his time.

After death

→ Main article: Tetisheri

Tetisheri was the first of a number of important Theban queens. Even after Senachtenre's death, she probably continued to play an important role at the royal court as the “ king mother ” and “ great royal wife ” of the late king. She may even have been the driving force in the fight against the Hyksos under Seqenenre Taa, Kamose and their grandson Ahmose . The latter had a pyramid and a temple built for her in the necropolis of Abydos , “in the vicinity of the monuments of my Majesty [...] because he loved her above all”. So she probably still lived at the beginning of the 18th dynasty .

literature

Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs. Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, London 2008, ISBN 0-9774094-4-9 , pp. 380-381.
C. Blankenberg-van Delden: Ahmes Merytamon and Ahhotep I, consort of Senakhtenre Tao I? In: Göttinger Miszellen (GM) Vol. 47, Göttingen 1981, pp. 15-20.
C. Blankenberg-van Delden: Additional Remarks on Queen Ahhotep, Consort of Senakhtenre Tao I? In: Göttinger Miszellen Vol. 49, Göttingen 1981, pp. 17-18.
Alfred Grimm, Sylvia Schoske: In the sign of the moon. Egypt at the beginning of the New Kingdom (= writings from the Egyptian collection . Volume 7 ). State Collection of Egyptian Art, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87490-691-4 .
Daniel Polz : The beginning of the New Kingdom: On the prehistory of a turning point . de Gruyter, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-11-019347-7 , p. 347.
Kim Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC (= The Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20, ISSN 0902-5499 ). The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 278-279.
Hermann A. Schlögl : Ancient Egypt. History and culture from the early days to Cleopatra. Beck, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-406-54988-8 .
Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 262.
Thomas Schneider: The Relative Chronology of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos Period (Dyns. 12-17). In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 168-196 ( online ).

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Hermann A. Schlögl: The Old Egypt. Munich 2006, p. 182.
^ Sébastien Biston-Moulin: Le roi Sénakht-en-Rê Ahmès de la XVIIe dynastie. In: Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne. Vol. 5, 2012, pp. 61-71, ( online ).
^ Claude Vandersleyen : Un seul roi Taa sous la 17th dynasty. In: Göttinger Miszellen Vol. 63, Göttingen 1983, ISSN 0344-385X , pp. 67-70.
↑ Alfred Grimm , Sylvia Schoske : In the sign of the moon. Munich 1999, p. 61.
^ Hermann A. Schlögl: The ancient Egypt. Munich 2006, p. 182.
↑ Kurt Sethe : Documents of the 18th Dynasty. Volume 1. Edited and translated. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1914 (reprint: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984), p. 16.

predecessor	Office	successor
Anjotef VII.	Pharaoh of Egypt 17th Dynasty	Seqenenre

personal data
SURNAME	Senachtenre
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sen-eight-en-Re
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian king of the 17th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	16th century BC Chr.

[HAS-1] Hermann A. Schlögl: The Old Egypt. Munich 2006, p. 182.

[2] Sébastien Biston-Moulin: Le roi Sénakht-en-Rê Ahmès de la XVIIe dynastie. In: Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne. Vol. 5, 2012, pp. 61-71, ( online ).

[3] Claude Vandersleyen : Un seul roi Taa sous la 17th dynasty. In: Göttinger Miszellen Vol. 63, Göttingen 1983, ISSN 0344-385X , pp. 67-70.

[4] Alfred Grimm , Sylvia Schoske : In the sign of the moon. Munich 1999, p. 61.

[5] Hermann A. Schlögl: The ancient Egypt. Munich 2006, p. 182.

[6] Kurt Sethe : Documents of the 18th Dynasty. Volume 1. Edited and translated. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1914 (reprint: Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984), p. 16.