Anthony,
I am very interested in whether there are any citations for
new interpretations of the dating of Hemetra after the lengthly discussions we have already had. As I said, Bolshakov is not definitive, so without something else, a middle-late 5th Dynasty date cannot be considered definitive.
As for Iunu, it is already mentioned as the place of the “greatest of Seers” in the 4th Dynasty.
Giza, Mastaba of Weneschet (G 4840), northern false door C: right inner door jamb: zA =s wr-mA,w-Jwn,w KA=j-mn,w-j. This mastaba is dated by Junker to Dynasty 4.
Also:
Giza, Mastaba des Mer-ib (G 2100 I-annexe), Offering chapel. North wall..
bibliography Lepsius, Denkmäler II 22 c;
Lepsius, Denkmäler Text I 46-49;
Aegyptische Inschriften aus den königlichen Museen zu Berlin, Leipzig 1913, Bd. 1, S. 100;
vgl. H. Junker, Giza II, 132;
K.-H. Priese, Die Opferkammer des Merib, Berlin 1984
provenance Giza
Date 4. Dyn.
zA-nswt-n-X,t=f smr xtm,w-nTr-wjA [2] (j)m(,j)-r'-mSa xrp-aH [3] wr-mD-Sma,w (j)r(,j-j)x(,t)-nswt Hts-Jnp,w aD-mr-wHa,w [4] (j)m(,j)-r'-kA,t-nb,t-n,t-nswt r'-Pj-nb [5] wr-mA,w-Jwn,w Hm-nTr-(Kartusche|xwi=f-wj|Kartusche) [6] mr,y-nb=f mrr,w-nb=f wt,j-Jnp,w Mr-jb.
As the text indicates, this man was a “kings son of his body,” “greatest of Seers of Iunu,” and a priest of Khufu (Hm nTr xwj=f-wj).
Would you mind, by the way, explaining what you mean when you say “[t]he grammar on that name also changed over time”? I see no evidence of any such change in the writing of “greatest of seers” (generally, but not always, interpreted as meaning “in Iunu” (See WB 1.329.7-10) between its earlier and later appearances (it seems always to be written as a direct genitive), nor in the writing of the phrase “greatest of seers in Iunu,” two early examples of which I give above. This phrase, too, is written as a direct genitive in every example I have seen from the ones given here to ones that are quite late (Hatshepsut).
Has anyone access to Jones’ work on OK titles, by the way. WB references a discussion of “wr-mA.w Jwn.w" at nos. 1426 and 1429.
Lee
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