Paweraa
Paweraa (alt. Pewero) was the Mayor of Western Thebes during a series of tomb robberies that occurred in the
Khaemwaset ordered an investigation by a commission of which Paweraa himself was the head. The investigation was considered corrupt by the people of Deir el-Medina. In the ensuing trial seventeen workmen from near-by temples were convicted and executed.[1] Paweraa, however, was never charged due to the lack of clear evidence of his guilt. He continued to serve in office while Paser, his accuser, vanished from history, and the robberies continued.[2]
Paweraa later appears in the House-list papyrus which dates to Year 12 of the pre-
Whm Mswt era of Ramesses XI
.
The events surrounding the investigation has been dramatised in the second episode of the British docutainment serial Ancient Egyptians.
References
Ancient Records of Egypt by J. H. Breasted, Part Four, §511ff.
- ISBN 0-631-19396-0, p.290
- ISBN 0-415-15448-0, p.147