Seschathotep

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Seschathotep in hieroglyphics
Proper name
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Sš3t-ḥtp Htj
Śš3t-ḥtp
Ḥtp-Śš3t

Seschathotep ( Seschat-hotep also Hetepseschat , Hetep-seshat ), with the second name Heti, was a high official in the time of the ancient Egyptian 5th dynasty . Among other things, he carried the titles of the king's son , head of all the king's work and greatest of the ten of Upper Egypt . Possibly he was also a vizier and thus held the highest office of the state after the king.

His grave ( G 5150 / LG 36 ) is in the so-called Westfriedhof , the largest cemetery on the pyramid plateau of Giza . The cult chapel of the mastaba is decorated. Parts of a statue were found in Serdab and in the grave shaft, which today belongs to the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna (inventory number ÄS 7788). The inscriptions on it are only partially preserved, including the title vizier . There are no more traces of the name. According to Hermann Junker, there are doubts as to whether this statue can be ascribed to Seschathotep or whether his father is depicted.

Seschathotep's wife was called Meretites. Another woman named in the grave is Hepetek. Various children are depicted in the grave: Mereretites, Sechenetka, Nesedjerka, Heti. The mastaba is not dated with a king's name, but research is ascribed to the end of the 4th or the beginning of the 5th dynasty.

literature

  • Michel Baud: Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2. (= Bibliothèque d'Étude 126/2 - 1999) Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale , Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 576-577 ( PDF file; 16.7 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
  • Brigitte Jaroš-Deckert, Eva Rogge: Statues of the Old Kingdom. (= Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Loose-leaf catalog of Egyptian antiquities. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Egyptian-Oriental Collection. Delivery 15) von Zabern, Mainz 1993, pp. 87–94, ISBN 3-8053-1497-3 ( PDF- File; 62.7 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .
  • Hermann Junker (Ed.): Gîza II. The Maṣṭabas of the beginning 5th dynasty on the Westfriedhof. Report on the work carried out by the Academy of Sciences in Vienna at joint expense with Dr. Wilhelm Pelizaeus † undertook excavations in the cemetery of the Old Kingdom near the pyramids of Gîza. Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Philosophical-historical class. Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna / Leipzig 1934, pp. 172–195 ( PDF file; 41.5 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .
  • Naguib Kanawati: Tombs at Giza. Volume II: Seshathetep / Heti (G 5150), Nesutnefer (G 4970) and Seshemnefer II (G 5080). (= The Australian Center for Egyptology: Reports 18), Aris and Phillips, Warminster 2002, ISBN 0-85668-815-0 , pp. 11-30 ( PDF file; 81.2 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 1: Abû Rawâsh to Abûṣîr. 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Jaromír Málek . The Clarendon Press / Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1974, pp. 149–150, Plan XXVIII ( PDF file; 19.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
  • Nigel Strudwick: The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom. The Highest Titles and their Holders. KPI, London 1985, ISBN 0-7103-0107-3 , pp. 136-137 ( PDF file; 20.4 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III, part 1. 1974, p. 149.
  2. ^ Michel Baud: Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2. 1999, p. 576
  3. ↑ a b Hermann Junker (ed.): Gîza II. The Maṣṭabas of the beginning 5th dynasty on the Westfriedhof. 1934, p. 188.
  4. ↑ Kunsthistorisches Museum : Group statue of Hetep-seschat and a woman .
  5. ^ Bertha Porter, Rosalind LB Moss, Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III, part 1. 1974, p. 150.
  6. ↑ Hermann Junker (ed.): Gîza II. The Maṣṭabas of the beginning 5th dynasty on the Westfriedhof. 1934, pp. 188-193
personal data
SURNAME Seschathotep
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Seschat-hotep; Heti; Hetepseschat; Hetep-seschat
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian official
DATE OF BIRTH 26th century BC BC or 25th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 25th century BC Chr.