Wepemneferet

Wepemneferet in hieroglyphics
Proper name	Wepemneferet (Wep em neferet) Wp-m-nfrt My judgment is perfect
title	Wer-medj-schemau Wr-mD-šm3w Great of the Ten of Upper Egypt
Portrait and name of Wepemneferet (detail)

Wepemneferet is the name of an ancient Egyptian prince and official in the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom . He was believed to be the son of King ( Pharaoh ) Cheops .

Offices

Wepemneferet held high titles such as "Director of Transport" ( Heka-mehedj ), " Manager of the barges" ( Adj-mer-imu ), " Prophet of the goddess Heket " ( Hem-netjer- Heqet ), "Prophet of the goddess Seschat " ( Hem-netjer-Seschat ), "Prophet of the god Anubis " ( Hem-netjer-Inpu ), "Prophet of the god Horus-in-the-north " ( Hem-netjer-Heru-mechti ), " priest of the souls of Pe " ( Hem-bau-pe ), " chet- priest of Ha " ( Chet-Ha ), "Overseer of the royal scribes" ( Medjeh-djeschui-nesut ), "Overseer of the Mehit" ( Medjehu-mehit ), " Foremost of the archives of the Confidants of the King ”( Chentet-per-medjehut-rech-nesut ) and“ Great of the Ten of Upper Egypt ”( Wer-medj-schemau ).

dig

Wepemneferet was buried in the mastaba G 1201 in the so-called Westfriedhof , the largest cemetery on the pyramid plateau of Giza . The grave was discovered in March 1905 by George Andrew Reisner during his excavations in Giza. Wepemneferet's name and his title were found on a grave slab embedded in the lintel with an offering table scene , the relief inscriptions of which were partially painted.

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 , p. 435 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
• Margaret Bunson: Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt . Infobase Publishing, New York 2009, ISBN 1438109970 , p. 431.
• Peter Der Manuelian (Ed.): Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale Expedition to Egypt. Volume 7. Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University / University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology , New Haven / Philadelphia 2003, ISBN 0-9740025-1-8 , pp. 32-40 ( PDF file; 56.6 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza - The Giza Project at Harvard University .
• Ingelore Hafemann: Service obligation in ancient Egypt . Golden House Publications, Berlin / London 2009, ISBN 978-1-906137-11-3 , p. 49.
• Peter Jánosi : The dead in front of the sacrificial table - The sacrificial plates from Giza . In: Michael Haase: Sokar. 10th edition (1st half year) 2005, ISSN  1438-7956 , p. 21ff.
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss , Ethel W. Burney: Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Volume III: Memphis. Part 1: Abû Rawâsh to Abûṣîr. 2nd edition, revised and expanded by Jaromír Málek . The Clarendon Press / Griffith Institute / Ashmolean Museum , Oxford 1974, p. 57, map X ( PDF file; 19.5 MB ); Retrieved from The Digital Topographical Bibliography .
• George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume 1. Harvard University Press, Cambridge 1942, pp. 385-389 ( PDF file; 249 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .
• William Stevenson Smith: The Stela of Prince Wepemnofret. In: Gladys Davidson Weinberg (Ed.): Archeology . Volume 16, Number 1, Archaeological Institute of America , New York 1963, pp. 2–13 ( PDF file; 4.10 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza .

Web links

• Digital Giza: Wepemnefret (G 1201)

Individual evidence

1. ^ After Hermann Ranke : The Egyptian personal names. Volume 1: Directory of Names. Augustin, Glückstadt 1935, p. 78, No. 3 ( PDF file; 24.2 MB ); Retrieved from Digital Giza on December 3, 2017.
2. ↑ Peter Der Manuelian: Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. P. 32ff.
3. ↑ after Peter Der Manuelian: Slab Stelae of the Giza Necropolis. P. 2f.