In G1 and the Boat Pits of Djedefre I noted:
I would further quote myself from HERE:
To remind ourselves, the idea I present is that the G1 boats pits Khufu I and II were built by Djedfre after the death of Khufu, but also that the Merer Diary is reffering to a time during the reign of Djedefre.
After reviewing the summary of this paper more in depth, Les Papyrus De La Mer Rouge II, I was very interested to see that in the Dedi Paryri (p278) it says that:
The authors believe this to be reffering to the Valley Temple of Khufu which Lehner suggests that the when the Khufu cartouche is accompanied by the Ankh and House signs [my paraphrasing as explained in the previous paragraphs] this may differentiate between "the residence of the living king, "may Khufu Live!" [represented by Hnw ?], to the east of the complex, and that of the king deceased, Akhet Khufu, the Horizon of Khufu, to the west [cartouche/ankh/building ?]".
[Emphasis mine]
An interesting footnote as well to this is that it appears the royal residence, now gone, may have been in the immediate vicinity of the pyramid which we are left to wonder if this was common to Khufu's predecessors as well.
Regardless, though circumstantial, it would appear the ankh associated with the cartouche may in fact be reffering to a king who has since died which if so would in fact mean that the cartouche found in the Khufu II boat pit was in memoriam and not placed during Khufu's life. I have never seen the ankh associated with other kings though they may certainly be out there. I think this is something worth rallying around and trying to figure out.
Lee Anderson
(For my friend Tony)
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If you look at 37:50 on the right is one of the Khufu cartouches and (I assume) the Djedefre cartouche found in Khufu II. The "Heqa" (crook) Manu notes of Khufu I, which what is shown at 37:50 is apparently the notes from what they found in Khufu II, is also found attached to Djedfre's cartouche in Khufu II. A further clue as to who was actually king at the time may be the unusual placement of the ankh symbol in front of the Khufu cartouche, a strangely large ankh no less, which in the OK was a symbol of eternal life, i.e. living beyond death, and in later Egyptian traditions the key to the gates of the afterlife. The inclusion of the ankh attached to the Khufu cartouche, an emphatic inclusion at that, clearly means something which implies to me it is used posthumously in memoriam, in essence "Khufu lives forever".
I would further quote myself from HERE:
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Ankhhaf (son of Sneferu), mentioned in Merer's Diary, is an interesting fellow who it appears died sometime during the reign of Khafre. A reassessment of the building of his mastaba G7510, the largest at Giza, suggests it was begun at the end of Khufu's reign in which construction continued though the reign of Khafre. The date given for the Merer Diary, the 13th cattle count, or "(26th) 27th year of Khufu's reign", does not actually come from Merer's Diary but rather some administrative document fragments found nearby. According to Tallet:
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“This diary,” write Tallet and Marouard, “found in the same archaeological context as the administrative accounts dating to regnal Year 27, highlights two major facts: it confirms that Ankh-haf was effectively vizier and in charge of some of the final steps of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza, and it verifies that the pyramid was clearly at a final stage of the construction project at the very end of the Khufu’s reign.”
So, these other documents mention a "13th cattle count", but I see no verification they mention Khufu by name and the only reason this is assumed to be Khufu's reign is, for one, the "archaeological context" it is found which I'd like to know what this is exactly that would place it specifically in Khufu's reign, but more importantly that it is also assumed the work performed at Akhet-Khufu, the G1 pyramid complex and not the necessarily the pyramid itself, was being performed by Ankhhaf during Khufu's reign. Here's the rub-there is no verification Ankhhaf was vizier under Khufu in which Reisner among others thought he was actually vizier under Khafre. If we consider the year of Djedfre's reign in the Khufu boat pit being the 11th cattle count, it is no great stretch considering Ankhhaf was alive perhaps even working as a vizier under Khafre that this may be reffering to the 13th cattle count of Djedfre's reign, not Khufu-a time when the boat pits and peripheral structures were being built after G1 had been completed.
To remind ourselves, the idea I present is that the G1 boats pits Khufu I and II were built by Djedfre after the death of Khufu, but also that the Merer Diary is reffering to a time during the reign of Djedefre.
After reviewing the summary of this paper more in depth, Les Papyrus De La Mer Rouge II, I was very interested to see that in the Dedi Paryri (p278) it says that:
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The most common rendering [of the Khufu cartouche (see drawing)] shows the king's cartouche followed by the sign [ankh], and then the sign for a house (), referring most probably to a building.
The authors believe this to be reffering to the Valley Temple of Khufu which Lehner suggests that the when the Khufu cartouche is accompanied by the Ankh and House signs [my paraphrasing as explained in the previous paragraphs] this may differentiate between "the residence of the living king, "may Khufu Live!" [represented by Hnw ?], to the east of the complex, and that of the king deceased, Akhet Khufu, the Horizon of Khufu, to the west [cartouche/ankh/building ?]".
[Emphasis mine]
An interesting footnote as well to this is that it appears the royal residence, now gone, may have been in the immediate vicinity of the pyramid which we are left to wonder if this was common to Khufu's predecessors as well.
Regardless, though circumstantial, it would appear the ankh associated with the cartouche may in fact be reffering to a king who has since died which if so would in fact mean that the cartouche found in the Khufu II boat pit was in memoriam and not placed during Khufu's life. I have never seen the ankh associated with other kings though they may certainly be out there. I think this is something worth rallying around and trying to figure out.
Lee Anderson
(For my friend Tony)
