Tjuneroy

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Tjuneroy in hieroglyphics
Surname
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Tjuneroy
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1st title
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Cheri-hab-heri-tep
Ḫrj-h3b-ḥrj-tp
Supreme reading priest
2nd title
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Sesch-nesu
Sš-nsw
scribe of the king

Tjuneroy (also Tjuloy ) was a high ancient Egyptian official and priest who worked under Ramses II in the 19th dynasty . He became known through a grave relief on which the famous list of kings of Saqqara is depicted. Not much is known about his person.

Office and Titulatures

Tjuneroy held high offices. Among other things, he was:

  • Rech-nesu : "acquaintance of the king"
  • Cheri-hab-heri-tep : "Supreme reading priest "
  • Sesch-nesu : "King's scribe"
  • Imi-ra-kat-nebet-net-nesu : "Head of all the king's work"
  • Sechem-heb-ni-netjeru-nebu : "Head of the feasts of all gods"

As the “chief reading priest” he was ritual master at the royal court and had access to ancient scriptures.

family

Tjuneroy comes from a family of high officials . His father was Paser (I.) , from whom Tjuneroy had inherited the title of royal scribe. Paser I was Sab priest and “head of the house of Amun ”. Tjuneroy's sister was called Itineferti , his brother Paser (II.) . The latter was the king's scribe and overseer of the workers of the Lord of the Two Countries . The whole family appears on a stele from the grave of Paser (II.). It is now in the British Museum .

King List

The relief with the list of kings shows Tjuneroy with a round curly wig and a short goatee. He holds a papyrus roll in his left hand , and extends his right hand to the list of kings. The list once contained 57 royal cartouches , while the work on the wall relief, during which the work of art was to be dismantled and transported away, some of the cartouches were damaged, so that today only 50 names are legible. The cartouches themselves are introduced alternately with a seated king figure with a red crown and with a white crown and conclude with Maa-cheru (in English "justified"). The list of kings begins with King Anedjib ( Merbiape ), the sixth regent of the 1st Dynasty , skips his successor Semerchet and then continues with King Qaa (here called Quebehu-chenti ). It is not known exactly why so many 1st Dynasty kings are absent. From Hetepsechemui ( reproduced here with Netjerbau ) the list of kings coincides almost completely with the listing in the Turin royal papyrus . Today the wall relief is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

dig

Tjuneroy's tomb is in Saqqara , where it was excavated in the winter of 1861. But it has been lost again since then.

literature

  • Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: The tomb-chapels of Paser and Ra'ia at Saqqara . Egypt Exploration Society, London 1985, ISBN 0856980951 , p. 9.
  • Dietrich Wildung: The role of Egyptian kings in the consciousness of their posterity (= Munich Egyptological studies. Vol. 17). Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1969, pp. 34 & 35.
  • Michael Rice: Who's who in ancient Egypt. Routledge, London / New York 1999, ISBN 0415154480 , p. 209.
  • Robert Morkot: The Egyptians: an introduction. Routledge, London / New York 2005, ISBN 0415271037 , p. 74.

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personal data
SURNAME Tjuneroy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian official under Ramses II.
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC BC or 13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 13th century BC BC or 12th century BC Chr.