Snofruchaef

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Snofruchaef in hieroglyphics
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Snofruchaef
(Snofru cha ef)
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It shines (King) Snofru

Snofruchaef (according to another reading Chaefsnofru ) was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th dynasty . He was a son of the vizier Nefermaat and thus a great-grandson of Pharaoh Sneferu . Reliefs from his grave show two sons, whose names are unknown.

His grave

Snofruchaef owns the mastaba G 7070 in the east cemetery of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . It contained an unlabeled sarcophagus that is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo . The sacrificial chapel of the grave complex contains, among other reliefs, a genealogical inscription that Snofruchaef classifies behind his royal great-grandfather Snefru, his grandmother Neferetkau and his father Nefermaat. Based on this inscription, Kurt Sethe came to the erroneous assumption that Sneferu had fathered a son with his own daughter. However, recent discoveries by George Andrew Reisner have refuted this theory .

literature

  • Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , p. 571 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 52-61.
  • Laurel Flentye: The development of art in the fourth dynasty: the eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza . In: Mamdouh Eldamaty, MaiTrad and Zahi Hawass: Egyptian Museum Collections around the World. Volume 1. American University in Cairo Press, Cairo / New York 2002, ISBN 9774247779 , p. 392.
  • Laurel Flentye: The development of art in the eastern and GIS cemeteries at Giza . In: Jean Claude Goyon, Christine Cardin: Actes Du Neuvième Congrès International Des égyptologues (= Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Egyptologists , Volume 1 of the Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta series ). Peeters Publishing, Lieuven 2007, ISBN 9042917172 , p. 733.
  • Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Second section, volume 3, plate 16 ( PDF; 16.4 MB ).
  • Karl Richard Lepsius: Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Text I, p. 82 ( PDF; 19 MB ).
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, pp. 183-184 ( PDF; 30.5 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner : Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw . In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS), Volume 64, Leipzig 1929, pp. 97–99.
  • George Andrew Reisner: A History of the Giza Necropolis . Volume I. Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 60, 116, 209, 309, 381 ( PDF; 249.8 MB ).
  • George Andrew Reisner: A history of the Giza Necropolis. Volume 2. Harvard University Press, Oxford (UK) 1942, p. 11.
  • Kurt Sethe : The lack of the concept of incest among the ancient Egyptians . In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS), Volume 50, Leipzig 1912, pp. 57–60.
  • Kurt Sethe: On the incest of Sneferu . In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde (ZÄS), Volume 54, Leipzig 1918, pp. 54–56.
  • Supreme Council of Antiquities : Bulletin of the Egyptian Museum. Volume 3. American Univ. in Cairo Press, Cairo / New York 2008, ISBN 9774372964 , p. 76.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Ranke : Die oldägyptischen Personalennamen , Volume 1. Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, p. 263, line 18; see also note 1. ( online as PDF file )
  2. ↑ Kurt Sethe: The lack of the concept of incest among the ancient Egyptians. In: ZÄS 50
  3. ↑ Kurt Sethe: On the incest of Sneferu. In: ZÄS 54
  4. ↑ GA Reisner: Nefertkauw, the eldest daughter of Sneferuw. In: ZÄS 64
personal data
SURNAME Snofruchaef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian prince
DATE OF BIRTH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 26th century BC BC or 25th century BC Chr.