Wahsut
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(Wah sud) W3ḥ swt Sitting continuously |
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Wahsut , also Wah-sut-cha-kau-Re-maa-cheru ( permanent are the seats of the justified Chakaure ) is the ancient Egyptian name of a city a little south of Abydos . The place was under Sesostris III. (approx. 1872 BC to around 1852 BC) founded next to its grave and cult complex.
supporting documents
The place is mentioned several times on papyri of the Middle Kingdom and also in the tomb of the vizier Rechmire . It was probably still inhabited in the New Kingdom , but lost its importance as early as the 13th Dynasty .
The city has been identified with certainty since 1994 during excavations by Josef Wegner in the south of Abydos, although parts of it were found at the beginning of the twentieth century, but were dated to the beginning of the 18th dynasty . The remains found so far consist of the large house of the mayor and rows of somewhat smaller residential buildings, which apparently served middle officials as residential buildings. Numerous seal impressions were found, including that of a "king's daughter" Renseneb, who was the wife of a local mayor. A special find in the women's wing of the mayor's house was a birth brick .
literature
- Joseph Wegner: The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos (= Publication of the Pennsylvania-Yale expedition to Egypt. Volume 8). Yale Egyptological Seminar, New Haven / Philadelphia 2007, ISBN 978-0-9740025-4-5 .
- Joseph Wegner: Social and Historical Implications of Sealings of the King's Daughter Reniseneb and Other Women at the Town Wah-sut . In: M. Bietak, E, Czerny (Ed.): Scarabs of the Second Millennium BC from Egypt, Nubia, Crete and the Levant: Chronological and Historical Implications; papers of a symposium, Vienna, 10th - 13th of January 2002 (= Contributions to the chronology of the Eastern Mediterranean. Volume 8; Memoranda of the Gesamtakademie / Austrian Academy of Sciences. Volume 35). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-7001-3320-0 , pp. 221-240.
- Joseph Wegner: Excavations at the Town of Enduring-are-the-Places-of-Khakaure-Maa-Kheru-in-Abydos: A Preliminary Report on the 1994 and 1997 Seasons. In: Journal of American Research Center in Egypt. Volume XXXV, 1998, pp. 1-44.