Tjetu

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Tjetu in hieroglyphics
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Tjetu (his further name is Kanesut ) was head of the pyramid city of Cheops , reading priest , henchman , the only friend of the king and supervisor of the Wab priests of Cheops . His wife was called Wadjet-hotep, also Hetep, she was royal acquaintance , priestess of the Neith and the Hathor . Other family members are named: the eldest son was called Mesni, also Tjetu, there were other brothers and a daughter Ipi, as well as a Hetep, perhaps Tjetu's mother. We learn from an inscription that Tjetu has become very old. As Wab priest of Cheops he was active in the king's cult of the dead.

His grave

The stone mastaba (G 2001) is located directly to the east of the large, important grave complex G 2000 in the west cemetery of the necropolis of Giza and was excavated by George Andrew Reisner in 1905–1906 . The colorful grave chapel with a well-preserved columned portico is of particular value. In the west wall of the portico, three false doors have been preserved, which were intended for Tjetu, his wife Hetep and the eldest son Mesni. Nina de Garis Davies made colored drawings from the colored reliefs in 1905. In 1930 they were photographed and re-examined in 1975. Based on the texts and the reliefs, the burial chapel can be dated to the late 6th dynasty . It contained four grave shafts that were looted. A complete skeleton has been preserved in shaft D, presumably from a woman, as a copper mirror was found next to the skeleton.

literature

  • 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. 66–67, maps XI and XXV ( PDF file; 19.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
  • George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume 1. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1942, p. 286, Figure 183 ( PDF file; 249 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
  • William Kelly Simpson (Ed.): Mastabas of the Western Cemetery: Part 1. Sekhemka (G 1029); Tjetu I (G 2001); Iasen (G 2196); Penmeru (G 2197); Hagy, Nefertjentet, and Herunefer (G 2352/53); Djaty, Tjetu II, and Nimesti (G 2337 X, 2343, 2366). Giza Mastabas, Volume 4, in collaboration with the “Pennsylvania-Yale Archaeological Expedition to Egypt”, Museum of Fine Arts , Boston 1980, ISBN 0-87846-156-6 , pp. 7–15, panels XII – XXXII, Figure 10 –26 ( PDF file; 66.6 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis 1 , 1942 (see literature).
  2. ^ William Kelly Simpson: Mastabas of the Western Cemetry: Part I , 1980 (see literature).
personal data
SURNAME Tjetu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kanesut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian official
DATE OF BIRTH between 24th century BC BC and 22nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH between 24th century BC BC and 22nd century BC Chr.