Wehemneferet

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Wehemneferet in hieroglyphics
Proper name
G43 F25 F35 D21
X1

Wehemneferet
(Wehem-neferet)
Wḥm-nfr.t
1st title
M23
X1 		D21
Aa1
X1

Rechet-nesut
Rḫ.t-nsw.t
acquaintances of the king

Wehemneferet (Wehem-neferet), also read Wehemnofret , is the name of an ancient Egyptian princess of the 5th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom . She was a daughter of Princess Wenschet . She bore the title of a "daughter of the king" ( Sat-nesut ) and that of an "acquaintance of the king" ( Rechet-nesut ). She was buried together with her sisters Nisu and Tjenti in the brick building - Mastaba S 984 in the pyramid necropolis of Giza , where so-called reserve heads of her were found.

literature

  • Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 438–439 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Erika Feucht: The child in ancient Egypt: the position of the child in the family and society according to ancient Egyptian texts and representations . Campus, Berlin 1995, ISBN 359335277X , p. 454.
  • Hans Kayser: The Egyptian antiquity in the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim. Gerstenberg, Hildesheim 1973, ISBN 3806780021 , p. 15.
  • Miroslav Verner , Vivienne G. Callender: Abusir VI .: Djedkare's family cemetery . Czech Institute of Egyptology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague 2002, ISBN 8086277224 , p. 137.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b after Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names . Vol. 1, Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, p. 83, no.17 ( online as PDF file ).
  2. ↑ a b after Hans Kayser: The Egyptian antiquities in the Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim. P. 15ff.
personal data
SURNAME Wehemneferet
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wehemnefert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian princess
DATE OF BIRTH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.