Senebui was an ancient Egyptian priest with the title " Greatest of the leaders of the craftsmen of the Almighty ". This title is a variant of the official designation of the high priest of Ptah . Senebui lived in the 13th Dynasty (around 1800 to 1650 BC) and is known with certainty only from one stele . On this stele also appears his wife, the royal jewelery Nubemhab, as well as a biographical phrase : who one waits for on the day on which Sothis comes out . This phrase plays a certain role in the Egyptian discussion of chronology and the Sothis cycle , as it may suggest that the high priest of Ptah was charged with observing the Sothis rise. The exact interpretation, however, is controversial.
Geoffrey T. Martin: Stelae from Egypt and Nubia in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. c. 3000 BC - AD 1150. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge et al. 2005, ISBN 0-521-84290-5 , pp. 48-49, No. 29.
↑ So z. E.g .: KSB Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. c. 1800 - 1550 BC (= Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20). Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , p. 185.
