Senemiah

Senemiah was a high ancient Egyptian official who lived in the 15th century BC. Officiated under the reigning queen Hatshepsut . He is mainly attested with the title of treasurer and succeeded Djehuty in this office .

On his grave cones he bears the title of scribe of counting the cattle of Amun . His title of Head of the Month in Armant shows that he had ties to Armant as well. So he seems to have started his career mainly in the Amun temple in Karnak and in Armant. A longer and very fragmentary biographical inscription has survived from his Theban grave ( TT127 ). This shows above all that he performed an important role in the ruler's punt expedition. The time of his promotion to the royal court and head of the treasury is not recorded.

Not much more is known about his person. His father was a certain wadjmose, his mother a woman named Ahmose. His wives are also known by name. They are Senseneb and Tetiseneb.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Norman de Garis Davies , Miles Frederick Laming Macadam: A Corpus of Inscribed Egyptian Funerary Cones. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1957, No. 446-447

literature

• JJ Shirley: The Power of the Elite: The Officials of Hatshepsut's Regency and Coregency. In: José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Peter F. Dorman (Eds.): Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop (= Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization. (SAOC), number 69). The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago , Chicago 2014, ISBN 978-1-61491-024-4 , pp. 208-211 ( PDF file; 21.7 MB ; retrieved from The Oriental Institute ).