Senefer
Senefer was an ancient Egyptian official and “ descendant of the king ” in the 6th Dynasty in the Old Kingdom . He held the title of overseer at the royal court. His wife's name was Ankh-Hathor and is known as the “royal granddaughter”.
His grave
The unnumbered mastaba is located in the Westfriedhof near D 100 and was excavated by Hermann Junker .
The mastaba dates from the late 6th dynasty . Junker describes their condition as "not very pleasant" because of the poor construction. Brittle limestone was used, the walls of the cult room are rough and poorly worked, the false doors are without inscriptions. The only pictorial representation is in the walls of the entrance. It shows Senefer standing on his staff and behind him his wife with her right arm on his right shoulder.
In the Roemer and Pelizäus Museum Hildesheim (Hildesheim, PM, Inv. No. 2973) there is a seating group of this couple that was found in the Serdab . All that remains is Senefer, his wife was deliberately chiseled away and the name was erased. Martin von Falck suspects that this is a divorce. Junker also discusses this possibility, but also considers grave robbery possible. This is supported by the fact that the name of the Anchhathor was not chiseled away in the entrance. On the other hand, one wonders why the grave robbers didn't take the whole double statue with them.
literature
- Hermann Junker : The middle field of the Westfriedhof (= Giza IX, Austrian Academy of Sciences. Memorandum 73, essay 2). Vienna 1950, pp. 127-134.
- Martin von Falck, Bettina Schmitz : The old empire. Egypt from the beginnings to high culture. Hildesheim 2009, No. 34.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Junker : The middle field of the Westfriedhof.
- ↑ Martin von Falck, Bettina Schmitz : Das Alte Reich. Egypt from the beginnings to high culture.