Tjanefer (fl. 1008 BCE) was an
ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...
ian priest during the reign of the
Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt
The Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XXI, alternatively 21st Dynasty or Dynasty 21) is usually classified as the first Dynasty of the Ancient Egyptian Third Intermediate Period, lasting from 1077 BC to 943 BC.
History
After the re ...
.
Description
His father was
Nesipaherenmut, the Fourth Prophet of
Amun
Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, r ...
, and his mother was Isetemheb. According to the ''Karnak Priestly Annals'', Tjanefer served as the Fourth Prophet of Amun in the 40th regnal year of
Psusennes I ( 1008 BCE). He was later promoted to Third Prophet, as it is mentioned in a papyrus found in his tomb at
Bab el-Gasus
Bab el-Gasus ( p. 17: "Daressy’s moniker ‘Tomb of the Priests’ likely finds its origins in the local traditions of Sheikh abd el Gurnah. Indeed, this phrase could be translated directly from the dialectal form of Arabic in use by Gurnawi wor ...
(which is now housed in the
Egyptian Museum
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in
Cairo
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).
He married
Gautseshen, the daughter of High Priest
Menkheperre and Princess Isetemkheb. They had two sons, Pinedjem, later Fourth Prophet, and
Menkheperre, Third Prophet of Amun.
[Dodson & Hilton, pp.200-201, 207-209]
References
Further reading
* Claude Traunecker, Les residents des rives du Lac Sacré, Le cas d'Ankhefenkhonsou, CRIPEL 15 (1993), 83-93.
* Gerard P.F. Broekman, On the Chronology and Genealogy of the Second, Third and Fourth Prophets of Amun in Thebes during the Twenty-First Dynasty in Egypt, GM 174 (2000), 25-36.
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Prophets of Amun
People of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt