Biography of the high steward Nefersekheru(Text ID UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE)


Persistent ID: UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE
Persistent URL: https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE


Data type: Text

Comment on script:
The inscription bears traces of red and blue paint (Osing 1992, 37–8).

Comment on language:
Mostly Middle Egyptian with Late Egyptian influence and early 19th dynasty orthography (Osing 1992, 38).


Comment on text category:
Biographie

Comment on dating:

  • No royal name in the tomb; no prosopographical information with chronological implications. Based on decorative programme (religious scenes) and linguistic criteria (Middle Egyptian with Late Egyptian inclusions) (Osing 1992, 32).


Information on line/column count

  • Zeilenzählung: 35.1 = Osing, Taf. 35, Kol. 1


Bibliography

  • – PM IV, 139 [B]
  • – J. Osing, Das Grab des Nefersecheru in Zawyet Sultan (Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 88), Mainz am Rhein 1992, 43-53, pls. 9 and 35 [P,F,U,Ü,K]
  • – E. Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt (Writings from the Ancient World 26), Atlanta 2007, 143-147 and 244-245 [Ü,K]


File protocol

  • – Elizabeth Frood, Ersteingabe, 05. Februar 2025 (Umschrift, Übersetzung, Kommentar und Metadaten in einem docx-Dokument; Texteingabe Peter Dils)

Text transliteration

  • – Elizabeth Frood, 17. Januar 2025 (von Peter Dils gemäß der Regeln von BTS angepasst)

Text translation

    • en – Elizabeth Frood, 17. Januar 2025

Text lemmatization

  • – Peter Dils, 08. Februar 2025 (gemäß der Vorlage von Elizabeth Frood)

Grammatical annotation

  • – Peter Dils, 08. Februar 2025 (gemäß der Vorlage von Elizabeth Frood)

Editing of hieroglpyhs

  • – Peter Dils, 08. Februar 2025 (gemäß Osing, Taf. 9 und 35 sowie Abschrift Wilbour [bei Osing, 44-45, Abb. 3] unter Auslassung der Rekonstruktionen von Osing, Taf. 35)


Author(s): Elizabeth Frood; with contributions by: Peter Dils
Data file created: 02/05/2025, latest revision: 03/12/2025

Please cite as:

(Full citation)
Elizabeth Frood, with contributions by Peter Dils, "Biography of the high steward Nefersekheru" (Text ID UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE) <https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE>, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae, Corpus issue 20, Web app version 2.3.2, 10/31/2025, ed. by Tonio Sebastian Richter & Daniel A. Werning on behalf of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and Hans-Werner Fischer-Elfert & Peter Dils on behalf of the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)
(Short citation)
https://thesaurus-linguae-aegyptiae.de/text/UEZIXPTSIVDX7JDHMEFG2WYOSE, in: Thesaurus Linguae Aegyptiae (accessed: xx.xx.20xx)