manuscripts (object)

Hieratic household namelist (wpwt) of Hori (deceased, son of Djehuty)'s son Snefru, in black with two red checkmarks in right margin, in thick, large cursive signs. This legal document lists three generations of the family: Snefru, his grandmother, his mother and his aunts. A single sheet torn into two halves along central fold, with prominent fold break down the vertical fibres, and some insect-holes. Found with UC32164 and UC32165 according to Griffith (see reference) who notes unplaced fragments from all three documents (none in this frame by comparison with published photograph, which shows one blank square fragments at lower left of upper half, now missing). Petrie lot I.3. Text has been translated as: 'Regnal year 3, fourth month of the season of flood, day 25 under the King Amenemhat V—may he live for ever and ever! Copy of the household-list of the Soldier Hori’s son Snefru, whose father was of the second unit of troops of the [Northern] District: His mother: Satsopdu’s daughter Shepset (Priestess of the Eastern District) His father’s mother: Harekheni (woman under the guild of the stone-masons of the Northern District) His father’s sister: Qatsennut (woman under the guild of the stone-masons of the Northern District) His father’s sister: Isis (woman under the guild of the stone-masons of the Northern District) His father’s sister: Satsnefru (woman under the guild of the stone-masons of the Northern District) Names entered under the household-list of his father year 2. Sworn statement for this household-list (the household-list of the deceased) made in the Office of the Vizier in year 5, first month of the season of growth, day 8. Made in the Office of Fields of the Northern District by the Steward and Accountant of Cattle: Senebi (man from the Northern District) in the presence of the Chief of the Tens of the South: Montuemhat, son of Imyerkhenret. [Also present were] the Scribe of the Board Senbef son of Aau (man from the Northern District), and the Scribe of the Army Sanehat (man from the Northern District)…[List of witnesses not fully preserved]'.

Lahun

Kahun Workmens' Town

- Janssen, Rosalind M., Getting Old in Ancient Egypt, 38-40

13th Dynasty

LDUCE-UC32163

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology