The Priest's monuments “Djed Khonsu Iou.ef Ankh”and the most important members of his family in the Late Period

Belal, Omar Mustafa; El Elimi, Faten Hamdy; Zine Alabedine, Adel Ahmed; Mosleh Mohamed, Samar Mohamed

doi:10.21608/jaauth.2024.329527.1619

The Priest's monuments “Djed Khonsu Iou.ef Ankh”and the most important members of his family in the Late Period

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Assistant Lecturer, Department of Tourist Guidance - Faculty of Arts - Tanta University

² Tourist Guide department- Faculty of tourism and hotels- Suez Canal University

³ Faculty of Arts - Tanta University

10.21608/jaauth.2024.329527.1619

Abstract

This study aims to shed light on the most important members of the priest family »Djed Khonsu Iou.ef Ankh« , clarifying the lineage of each member of this family, through the biographies of each priest, which were written on either their coffins or through the biographies of the priest's relatives in the event that he did not have his own coffin. It also sheds light on the special monuments of each priest in order to know the functional role and the extent of the social and functional status that each priest of this family reached.

The most important research results:

The priests of this family belonged to the priests of the god Amun and the god Montu, and they combined political, administrative and religious titles, as they were called by the following titles:

»HAty-a the prince«, »TAty The vizier«, »sS nTr God's writer«, »Rpa Hereditary Noble« , »Hry sS(w) n tmA Chief of scribes for Land registration«, »Imi-r xtm Supervisor of the Seal«.

 Most of the priests of this family inherited the position of (Priest of Montu, Lord of Thebes), some priests also combined the function of priest of Montu and the function of priest of other deities and we also notice that some priests held the title of vizier (TAty).

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