Webensenu

Webensenu , also Ubensenu , was a son of the ancient Egyptian king Amenophis II. Prince ( Sa-nesut ) Webensenu is named together with his brother Nedjem on a statue of the official Minmose, overseer of the work in this temple , which perhaps comes from Karnak .

He died young and was probably buried in his father's grave in KV35 in the Valley of the Kings , as his canopic jugs and ushabti were found there. The complex, found by Victor Loret in 1898, contained three mummies in a side chamber ( Jd ) to the burial chamber: two women and a boy who was still wearing the youth lock . While mummy KV35EL ( Elder Lady ) as Queen Teje and KV35YL ( Younger Lady ) as daughter of Amenhotep III. and Teje could be identified, the boy's identity is unknown. Anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith estimated the boy's age to be around eleven when he examined it and suggested it was Webensenu.

literature

Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , pp. 135, 141.
Grafton Elliot Smith : The Royal Mummies. Cairo 1912 (Reprint: Duckworth, London 2000, ISBN 0-7156-2959-X ), pp. 39-40.

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Helck : Documents of the 18th Dynasty. Booklet 18: Biographical Inscriptions by Contemporaries of Thutmose III. and Amenophis' II. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956, p. 1447 ( digitized version ).
↑ Betsy Bryan: The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period. In: Ian Shaw (Ed.): The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2000, ISBN 978-0192804587 , p. 248.

personal data
SURNAME	Webensenu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prince
DATE OF BIRTH	15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	14th century BC Chr.

[1] Wolfgang Helck : Documents of the 18th Dynasty. Booklet 18: Biographical Inscriptions by Contemporaries of Thutmose III. and Amenophis' II. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1956, p. 1447 ( digitized version ).

[2] Betsy Bryan: The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period. In: Ian Shaw (Ed.): The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2000, ISBN 978-0192804587 , p. 248.