Tjanuni

Tjanuni (or Tjanuny , read as "Silni" after Schneider ) was an ancient Egyptian warrior of the 18th dynasty . He officiated under Thutmose III. as head of the military scribe and was responsible for all marching reports and official war diaries. Below . Amenhetep II and . Thutmes IV was promoted to recruit recorder ( "Sesch-neferu"; SS nfrw ). The new office of the recruiter was responsible for recruiting new recruits and was not until the time of Thutmose III. introduced. It was only one step below that of the general. The Egyptian expansion policy of the 18th dynasty ensured an ever increasing administrative burden within the Egyptian army, which made this office necessary.

His grave TT74 is in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna and contains a biographical inscription.

literature

Wolfgang Helck : The influence of the military leaders in the 18th Egyptian dynasty . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1939, p. 15, 19, 27 .
Annelies Brack, Artur Brack: The grave of Tjanuni. Thebes No. 74 (= Archaeological Publications . Volume 19 ). Zabern, Mainz 1977, ISBN 3-8053-0048-4 .
Julia Budka: High administrative officer under Thutmose III . In: Gabriele Höber-Kamel (Ed.): Kemet . Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2001, ISSN 0943-5972 , p. 25–32, here p. 31 .

Individual evidence

^ Budka: Kemet. Issue 3, 2001, p. 31.
^ Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 292.

personal data
SURNAME	Tjanuni
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Tjanuny; Silni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian warrior
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	14th century BC Chr.

[1] Budka: Kemet. Issue 3, 2001, p. 31.

[2] Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 292.