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Hunefer was a scribe during the 19th Dynasty ('' fl.'' c. 1300 BCE). He was the owner of the Papyrus of Hunefer, a copy of the funerary www.britishmuseum.org
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Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Hunefer's Book of the Dead
Papyrus of Hunefer
Ancient Egyptian scribes 13th-century BC works Ancient Egyptian overseers of the cattle {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub
Hunefer was a scribe during the 19th Dynasty ('' fl.'' c. 1300 BCE). He was the owner of the Papyrus of Hunefer, a copy of the funerary Egyptian Book of the Dead
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt.
Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to:
Nations and ethnic groups
* Egyptians, a national group in North Africa
** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...
, which represents one of the classic examples of these texts, along with others such as the Papyrus of Ani
The Papyrus of Ani is a papyrus manuscript in the form of a scroll with cursive hieroglyphs and color illustrations that was created c. 1250 BCE, during the Nineteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt. Egyptians compiled an individu ...
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Hunefer was "Scribe of Divine Offerings", " Overseer of Royal Cattle", and steward of Pharaoh
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the ...
Seti I
Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II.
The ...
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See also
*List of ancient Egyptian scribes
This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods.
The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, ''to write'', and ''"writings"'', etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, Y3 from the category of: 'writings, games, & mu ...
References
External links
Judgement in the Presence of Osiris, Hunefer's Book of the Dead
Smarthistory
Smarthistory is a free resource for the study of art history created by art historians Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Smarthistory is an independent not-for-profit organization and the official partner to Khan Academy for art history.
Smarthisto ...
Papyrus of Hunefer
Ancient Egyptian scribes 13th-century BC works Ancient Egyptian overseers of the cattle {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub