Senetnay

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Sennefer and Senetnay

Senetnay was the wet nurse of Pharaoh Amenophis II and the wife of Sennefer , the mayor of Thebes . She lived during the New Kingdom in the 18th Dynasty .

General

Senetnay was a royal wet nurse of the future pharaoh Amenophis II. Due to this fact, she was granted a burial within the royal necropolis, the Valley of the Kings , a right that had previously been granted to Hatshepsut's wet nurse Sitre-In . Senetnay was married to Sennefer, who made a career as mayor of Thebes and "head of the barns of Amun" under the government of their former pupil. In Sennefers grave ( TT96 ) different names are used for his wife: In addition to Senetnay, the names Sentnefert, Senetmi, Senetemiah and Meryt are also mentioned there. Presumably the traditional women's names are only one or two people. It is very likely that the name forms formed with Senet (Egyptian: sister) are various nicknames of the Senetnay. Since Meryt is only mentioned in the painted burial chamber, it could have been a second woman, the Sennefer. A woman named Biy is mentioned in the grave as Senetnay's mother. Sennefer and Senetnay had two daughters named Mutnofret and Nefertari. The first had the rare title of "milk sister of the Lord of the Two Lands", the second was a singer of Amun .

Historical evidence

There is a statue of Sennefer and his wife in the temple of Karnak , which Amenhotep II had erected for them. This is an award for Sennefer's achievements during the reign of the Pharaoh.

In the famous vine arbor grave of the Sennefer TT96, there are pictures of him and his wife. Among other things, it is shown that servants bring food to the couple. In a second illustration, Sennefer and his wife are shown sitting in front of a table full of offerings. The couple had previously been cleansed by holy water.

Another representation in the tomb shows Sennefer. His wife stands in front of him and she offers him a lotus flower . There are also other images that show the couple sacrificing.

Sennefer and Senetnay also appear as guests in the grave of the vizier Amenemopet TT29 .

In 2016, Rainer Hannig rediscovered the lower part of a Senetnay statuette in the Swiss Collection Jacques-Edouard Berger in the Musée de Design et d`Art in Lausanne. It is an extremely rare female educator statue in which Senetnay was depicted in a round sculpture with a king's child (most likely the later Amenhotep II) on her lap.

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Senetnay's grave is most likely located in the TT96 grave complex, which has numerous pictures of her and her husband. At the same time, Howard Carter found objects in complex KV42 that could be clearly assigned to Senetnay. A copy of the burial chamber of Sennefer is in the Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum in Hildesheim .

literature

  • Catharine Hershey Roehrig: The Eighteenth Dynasty titles royal nurse (mnʼt nswt), royal tutor (mnʼ nswt), and foster brother / sister of the Lord of the Two Lands (sn / snt mnʼ n nb t3wy). University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
  • Dimitri Laboury: Sennefer et Aménémopé. Une Affaire de Famille. In: Egypte, Afrique & Orient. No. 45, March 2007
  • Marianne Eaton-Krauss: The fate of Sennefer and Senetnay at Karnak Temple and in the Valley of the Kings. In: Journal of Egyptian Archeology. (JEA), Vol. 85, London 1999, pp. 113-129, panels XVIII-XIX.
  • Rolf Gundlach and colleagues: The Theban Mayor Sennefer, an official from the time of Amenophis II. In: Arne Eggebrecht (Ed.): Sennefer, the burial chamber of the Mayor of Thebes. von Zabern, Mainz 1988, ISBN 3-8053-1022-6 .
  • Rainer Hannig, Daniela Rutica, Michael Habicht, Alexandra Küffer: A previously unknown statuette from the Senetnay in Lausanne. In: Henning Franzmeier, Thilo Rehren, Regine Schulz (eds.): Writing history with archaeological layers. Festschrift for Edgar B. Pusch on his 70th birthday. Hildesheim, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8067-8812-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eric H. Cline, David B. O'Connor: Thutmose III: A New Biography. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor 2006, ISBN 0-472-11467-0 , p. 249.
  2. ↑ Sen-nefer's family tree
  3. ↑ a b c d e f g h The Private Tomb of Sennefer on the West Bank at Luxor
  4. ↑ Temp. Tuthmosis III - Amenhotep II
  5. ↑ EGYPT Tombs of the Nobles
  6. ↑ [1]
  7. ^ Daniel Polz : The beginning of the new empire: On the prehistory of a turning point (= special publication (German Archaeological Institute. Cairo Department). Vol. 31). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-019347-3 , p. 217.
  8. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from January 17, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nefershapiland.de
personal data
SURNAME Senetnay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian wife and wife of Sennefer
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century BC BC or 15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th century BC BC or 14th century BC Chr.