Tjanefer

Tjanefer was an ancient Egyptian priest during the reign of the Twenty-first Dynasty of Egypt.

Tjanefer[1] in hieroglyphs

His father was Nesipaherenmut, the Fourth Prophet of Amun, and his mother was Isetemheb. According to the Karnak Priestly Annals, in the 40th regnal year of Psusennes I (grandfather of his wife Gautseshen), Tjanefer served as the Fourth Prophet of Amun. He was later promoted to Third Prophet, as it is mentioned in a papyrus found in his tomb at Bab el-Gasus (today in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo).[2]

He married Gautseshen, the daughter of High Priest Menkheperre and Princess Isetemkheb. They had two sons, Pinedjem, later Fourth Prophet, and Menkheperre, Third Prophet of Amun.[3]

Sources

1. Hermann Ranke: Die ägyptische Persönennamen. Verlag von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, 1935, p.387
2. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, pp.208-209
3. Dodson & Hilton, pp.200-201, 207-209

Further reading

• Claude Traunecker, Les residents des rives du Lac Sacré, Le cas d'Ankhefenkhonsou, CRIPEL 15 (1993), 83-93.
• Gerard P.F. Broekman, On the Chronology and Genealogy of the Second, Third and Fourth Prophets of Amun in Thebes during the Twenty-First Dynasty in Egypt, GM 174 (2000), 25-36.