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An Essay in Document Transmission: Nj-k-ʿnḫ and the Earliest ḥrjw rnpt by Peter der Manuelian is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
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AMONG the unique and unparalleled specimens of Old Kingdom relief sculpture is the important but misunderstood "duty table" on the east wall of the second, or newer, Tehne tomb of Nj-k3-cnb (= tomb no. 1), Keeper of the King's Property and Steward of the Great Domain (hwt c3t) during the early Fifth Dynasty.1 In between two representations of Nj-k 3-'n seated with his wife, Hdt-hknw, are two duty rosters, one above the other, which designate monthly mortuary cult service for both Hathor, Lady of Tehne, and a certain Keeper of the King's Property HInw-kD (fig. 1). In no other tomb is such an elaborate "calendar" to be found. The table evenly divides five t (?)-units of land each month among the deceased's wife and children and contains a large-scale representation of each individual inside his own appropriate "box." Furthermore, although the two rosters bear the same list of names, they arrange them in opposite order (i.e., the wife is first in the table above and last in the table below, while the order of the month designations remains the same). Thus no one person had to serve two cults in the same month. ## Two important features of Nj-kD-~nh's table have, in my opinion, been mi
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- Author
- Peter der Manuelian
- Published
- 1986
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)