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Weni (also Uni or Una or Weni the Elder ) was a high Egyptian official and military leader under the pharaohs Teti II. , Userkare , Pepi I. and Merenre .

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Civil servant career

He reached adulthood under Teti II and became "head of the magazine" and "subordinate of the tenants of the palace". Teti's successor, Pepi I , appointed Weni successively as "elder of the sacristy " and "subordinate of his [Pepis] pyramid city", then as "only friend", "chief of the leaseholders of the palace" and "judge of Hierakonpolis ", when he started the process directed against a " royal consort " and " Weret-hetes " (a queen's title) not mentioned by name .

As a military leader

Apparently also under Pepi, he successfully led a campaign with mercenaries from the Nubian regions of Irtjet , Medja , Jam , Wawat and Kaau against the nomads of southern Palestine , who are referred to in Weni's biography as "sand dwellers" ( ḥr.jw-šˁ ). A victory song containing 14 verses tells of the victorious return of the Egyptian army and represents the earliest poetic work of ancient Egyptian literature . In it the sentence “This army has returned in peace” alternates with a more precise description of the campaign: “This army has returned in peace, it crushed the land of the sand dwellers; This army has returned in peace; it tore down its [the enemy's] fortresses ”etc. Further uprising attempts by the“ sand dwellers ”were put down by Weni. A little later Weni undertook a sea-based campaign to "Gazelle Nose", which is probably a mountain on the southern Palestinian coast and is expressly referred to as the north of the land of the "sand dwellers".

As an expedition leader

Merenre appointed Weni the head of Upper Egypt and assigned him to a total of three expeditions to the quarries of Ibhat ( Nubia ), of Elephantine , the alabaster quarries of Hatnub as well as Upper Nubia to building materials for Merenres pyramid in Sakkara to procure and five channels on the first cataract to dig. At the end of his career, Weni was promoted to vizier . He probably died under Merenre and was buried in a mastaba tomb in Abydos .

literature

  • Janet E. Richards: Text and Context in late Old Kingdom Egypt: The Archeology and Historiography of Weni the Elder. In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. No. 39, Boston 2004, ISSN  0065-9991 , pp. 75-102.
  • Christoph H. Reintges: De autobiographical Inscriptie van Weni. In: Mededelingen en negotiating van het Vooraziatisch-Egyptisch Genootschap "Ex Oriente Lux". No. 33, Leiden / Peeters, Leuven 2003, ISBN 90-429-1346-0 , pp. 44-56.
  • K. van Dam: De autobiography van Weni. In: De ibis. No. 18, Amsterdam 1993, pp. 137-145.
  • Christopher Eyre: Weni's Career and Old Kingdom Historiography. In: The unbroken reed studies in the culture and heritage of Ancient Egypt in honor of AF Shore (= Occasional publications (Egypt Exploration Society). Vol. 11). Egypt Exploration Society, London 1994, ISBN 0-85698-124-9 , pp. 107-124.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the grave and title of vizier of Weni ( en )

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personal data
SURNAME Little
ALTERNATIVE NAMES University; Una; Weni the older one
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian official of the 6th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 24th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 23rd century BC Chr.