Khakaureseneb was an ancient Egyptian mayor/governor of Bubastis (Tell Basta) in the Eastern Nile Delta, dating to the late Middle Kingdom.[1]
| Khakaureseneb | |
|---|---|
| Governor of Bubastis | |
| Predecessor | Khety (?) |
| Successor | Maheshotep (?) |
| Dynasty | Twelfth Dynasty |
| Pharaoh | Senusret III Amenemhat III |
| Mother | Mut |
| Burial | Tell Basta, governoral cemetery? |
Attestation
editHis name Khakaure-seneb can be associated with Khakaure Senusret III during which reign he may have been born, and he may have lived into the reign of Amenemhat III. His chronological positions among the governors of Bubastis is not clear.
At Tell Basta, a squatting statue of him was found in the governoral palace.[2]
Statue B 96 from the western wall of the so-called throne hall of the palace:
01 | An offering, that the king gives and Re-Harakhty, the son of Geb, Osiris
02 | the Great Ennead, the row of Upper and Lower Egyptian chapels, and Bastet
03 | lady of Bubastis, (that they may give) an invocation offering, (consisting of) bread, beer, pure cattle and fowl, incense, unguent
04 | for the Ka of the hereditary prince, governor, spokesman of Nekheb in the Per-wer, overseer
05 | of the priest(s) of Bastet, Khakaure-seneb, begotten of Mut.
Translation by Lange-Athinodorou 2015:195.[3]
Tomb
editAt Tell Basta, Khakaure-seneb may have been buried at the "governor's cemetery".
He is not to be confused with Khakaureseneb, mayor of Elephantine.
References
edit- ^ Akten des vierten Internationalen Ägyptologen Kongresses, München, 1985: Geschichte, Verwaltungs- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, Rechtsgeschichte, Nachbarkulturen (in French and English). H. Buske. 1988. pp. 192, 194. ISBN 978-3-87118-903-6.
- ^ Oppenheim, Adela; Arnold, Dorothea; Arnold, Dieter; Yamamoto, Kei (2015-10-12). Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom. Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-58839-564-1.
- ^ Eva Lange-Athinodorou (2015) The So-called Governors’ Cemetery at Bubastis and Provincial Elite Tombs in the Nile Delta: State and Perspectives of Research
Further reading
edit- BaKr, Brandl, Kalloniatis (eds.), Egyptian Antiquities from the Eastern Nile Delta, 2, 24, 309–11, cat. 10
- Lange-Athinodorou, Eva. (2017). Palace Cemeteries of the Eastern Delta. 10.2307/j.ctvrzgw3b.14.