Menkheperreseneb II
Menkheperreseneb II | |
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High Priest of Amun | |
Predecessor | Menkheperraseneb I |
Dynasty | 18th Dynasty |
Pharaoh | Thutmose III and Amenhotep II |
Father | Hepu |
Mother | Taiunet |
Burial | TT112, Thebes |
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Menkheperreseneb in hieroglyphs | |||||
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Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||
Menkheperreseneb II was a High Priest of Amun, Superintendent of the Gold and silver treasuries, and Chief of the Overseers of Craftsmen. He served at the time of Thutmose III and Amenhotep II, and may have been buried in his Theban tomb, TT112.
Biography
Menkheperreseneb II was a son of the charioteer of His Majesty Hepu and the King's Nurse Taiunet.[1] Until recently it was believed that there was only one High Priest of Amun called Menkheperraseneb; in 1994, Egyptologist Peter Dorman showed that the HPA were actually two: Menkheperreseneb II was indeed the nephew and successor of Menkheperraseneb I, brother of Hepu and owner of tomb TT86.[2]
Attestations
Apart from his tomb TT112, there are many monuments bearing the name of a "High Priest of Amun Menkheperraseneb"; unfortunately, for almost all of these, it is not possible to determine whether they belonged to "the elder" or to "the younger". This is the case for numerous
A sitting statue of a
References
- ^ a b c Fazzini, Richard A., A Statue of a High Priest Menkheperreseneb in The Brooklyn Museum, in Studies in honor of William Kelly Simpson, vol. 1 (1996) pp 209-225.
- ^ a b Peter Dorman, Two Tombs and One Owner, in Thebanische Beamtennekropolen. Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens 12. Edited by J. Assmann, E, Dziobek, H. Guksch, and F. Kampp. Heidelberg: Heidelberger Orientverlag, 1994, pp. 141-54.
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37578.gif | UC 37578
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37579.gif | UC 37579
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37580.gif | UC 37580
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37581.gif | UC 37581
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37582.gif | UC 37582
- ^ http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/thebes/archive/uc37583.gif | UC 37583
- ^ EG 3409 or EG 3414.
- ISBN 978-0-87-099191-2., p. 129
- ^ "statue". British Museum. Retrieved 2018-03-22.