The High Priest of Amun Haremakhet in The Cairo Museum (JE 55194 and JE 49157)

Abstract

This paper deals with publishing and studying Coffin JE 55194 and restudying the statue fragment JE 49157 of Prince Haremakhet. The Prince Haremakhet was a High Priest of Amun, He was a son of king Shabaka and the queen Mesbat, and his son the high priest of Amun, called Harkhebi. Haremakhet left only five documents. The coffin was discovered by the Metropolitan Museum excavations (1918-1919) in a Cachette of material associated with embalming process in Asasif, near Theban Tomb TT 279 of Pabasa and 26th Dynasty Burials. Now the coffin is kept in the basement of Cairo Museum. The back of the coffin is decorated with six blue columns of hieroglyphic inscriptions on a white ground representing the spell eighty-nine of the Book of the Dead. The statue fragment of Haremakhet was recovered by Maurice Pillet in the Mut Enclosure-Temple of Khonspekhrod at Karnak, it is apart from a standing naophorous statue. Now the statue fragment JE 55194 is kept in the basement of Cairo Museum (SS50). This fragment will be studied, along with its' inscriptions.