Ptahemwia

Ptahemwia (Ptah in the barque) was an Ancient Egyptian official who lived under king Ramses II in the 19th Dynasty, around 1250 BC.

Ptahemwia had several titles, providing evidence for his positions mainly at the Ramesseum, the mortuary temple of Ramses II. These include king's scribe, Great overseer of the cattle in the Temple of Usermaatre-Setepenre in the House of Amun and overseer of the treasury of the Temple of Million of Years of the King of Upper and Lower Egypt Usermaatre-Setepenre in the House of Amun in Memphis.

Ptahemwia is known from a number of objects. In 1859 there was photographed by Théodule Devéria at Sakkara the decorated doorway of his tomb chapel.[1] The decorated doorway is today only known from a photographic picture that was taken at this time, but the names and titles of Ptahemwia are mostly still readable. Today, the doorway is lost.

Ptahemwia is also known from some other objects. There is a pyramidion found in 1860 at Saqqara it is inscribed with his names and titles and showing Ptahemwia in front of different deities.[2] A statue without head was found at Abydos in 1902. The statue shows Ptahemwia with a smaller statue of Osiris in front of him. It is now in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The titles listed on the statue (according to Kitchen) include overseer of Cattle, overseer of Cattle in the Temple of Usermaatre-Setepenre in the Estate of Amun, and king's scribe of Sacred Offerings of all the gods. [3]

References
  1. Nico Staring: The Tomb of Ptahemwia at Saqqara, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 102 (2016), 147-156
  2. Staring, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 102 (2016), 157-158 (the object is today in the Cairo Egyptian Museum, JE 8371); Karol Myšliwiec: Zwei Pyramidia der XIX Dynastie aus Memphis, in: Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur 6 (1978), 139-15, plates XXXVI-XXXVII
  3. Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries (Ramesside Inscriptions Translations) (Volume III) Wiley-Blackwell. 2001 ISBN 978-0631184287, pp 273-274
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