Senwosretanch

Senwosretanch in hieroglyphics
Surname	Senwosretanch (S [e] en Wosret anch) S n Wsrt ˁnh Senwoseret / Sesostris (man of Wosret ) may live
Official title	Irj-pat Jrj-p3t Member of the elite
2. Official title	Sem Sm Sem priest
3. Official title	Hem-netjer-Seker / Sokar Ḥm-nṯr-Skr priest of Sokar
4. Official title	Wer-cherep-hemut-em-perui Wr-ḫrp-ḥmwt-m-prwj Largest of the leaders of the craftsmen in the duplex

Senwosretanch (also Sesostrisanch ) was a high, under Sesostris I reigning ancient Egyptian official . He carried various titles such as “Member of the elite”, “First in action”, “Lecture priest”, “Sem priest”, “Priest of Sokar” and “ Greatest of the leaders of the craftsmen in the semi-detached house ” and “Priest of Ptah”. Mainly because of the latter combination of titles, it has been assumed that his main office was that of Ptah's high priest . He also carried the title of "royal builder" ( Mdḥ-qdt-nsw ). Dieter Arnold , therefore, believed that he was the architect of I. Pyramid of Sesostris was.

supporting documents

Senwosretanch is only known from his grave northeast of the Sesostris-I pyramid in El-Lisht . This is the largest mastaba found here . The actual mastaba was about 12 × 22.7 m in size and decorated on the outside with a palace facade . The building probably only had one interior space that served as a cult chapel. The mastaba was surrounded by three walls. The outer one was made of adobe bricks and measured 50.5 × 92.3 m. The entrance was on the east side. Another wall was about 68 × 38 m in size and had a pylon-like structure in the east, on the entrance side . It was designed as a palace facade with niches. The innermost wall was built of stone and approx. 40 × 30 m in size, whereby the enclosed area in the rear part, where the mastaba stood, widened (in the plan the wall therefore resembles a T ).

The entrance to the burial chamber was north of the mastaba. After about 10 m it leads straight into the burial chamber via a descending corridor, but was secured by four falling stones coming from above. The burial chamber is 2.62 × 5.46 m in size and was decorated with pyramid texts. The sarcophagus consisted of a specially walled pit in the burial chamber with a limestone lid. There was probably an internal wooden coffin in this pit. The walls around the sarcophagus pit are decorated with a painted palace facade.

The burial chamber was found robbed, but the grave robbers did not enter the grave via the heavily blocked entrance, but dug a tunnel into the burial chamber.

See also

• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles

literature

• Dieter Arnold : Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht (= Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egyptian Expedition. Vol. 28). Metropolitan Museum of Art et al., New York NY et al. 2008, ISBN 978-1-58839-194-0 , pp. 13–24, plates 2–25.
• William C. Hayes : The Texts in the Mastabeh of Se'n-Wosret-'Ankh at Lisht (= Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egyptian Expedition. Volume. 12). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1937 ( online ).

Web links

• [1] , [2] Pictures of the burial chamber on flickr.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Arnold: Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht. 2008, p. 14.