High Priest of Ra
The High Priest of Ra or of Re was known in Egyptian as the wr-mꜢw, which translates as Greatest of Seers.[1]
The main cult of Ra was in ancient Heliopolis, northeast of present-day Cairo. The high priests of Ra are not as well documented as the high priests of other deities such as Amun and Ptah.
List of high priests
[edit]- Old Kingdom (c. 2686 BCE – 2181 BCE)
- Imhotep, time of Djoser, Third Dynasty
- Prince Rahotep, possibly son of Sneferu, Fourth Dynasty
- Middle Kingdom[2] (c. 2055 BCE–1550 BCE)
- Nubkaura-ankh, from offering table and rock inscription
- Khakaureemhat, papyrus from Lahun
- Maakherure-emhutaat, seal
- Ra, seal
- Khentyhetep Iyemiatib, seal
- Iuefsenef, seal
- New Kingdom (c. 1550 BCE–1069 BCE)
- Ahmose, son of Amenhotep II. Served during the reign of Thutmose IV
- Pawah served during the reign of Akhenaten
- Paraemheb served during the reign of Horemheb, and is possibly the same as Paatenemheb in his late career[3]: 13
- Bak (High Priest of Re) Bak was a royal charioteer and later high priest of Re.
- Amenemope, son of the high priest of Amun, Parennefer called Wennefer
- Meryatum son of Ramesses II and Nefertari
- Rahotep served as Vizier as well as high priest of Re during the reign of Ramesses II.
- Meryatum II served during the Twentieth Dynasty
- Nebmaatre, likely a son of Ramesses IX
Related archaeological elements
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The Al-Masalla area of the Al-Matariyyah district, the site of Heliopolis, contains the underground tombs of High Priests of Re of the Sixth Dynasty (2345 BCE – 2181 BCE), which were found in the southeast corner of the great Temple of Re—Atum archaeological site. [4] The ancient Masalla Obelisk, or El-Misalla (Arabic: المسلة, trans. obelisk), in Al-Matariyyah is the only surviving element standing of the Re—Atum Temple, constructed by Pharaoh Senusret I (1971 BCE – 1926 BCE) of the Twelfth Dynasty. [5][6]
References
[edit]- ↑ Elizabeth Frood, John Baines, Biographical texts from Ramessid Egypt.
- ↑ All Middle Kingdom priests according to: W. Grajetzki: Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, London 2009 ISBN 978-0-7156-3745-6, p. 177
- ↑ Breasted, James H. (1906). Ancient Records of Egypt: Historical Documents from the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest, collected, edited, and translated, with Commentary. Volume III: The twentieth to the twenty-sixth dynasties. University of Chicago Press.
- ↑ "El-Matariya Tombs, Heliopolis, Cairo". Archived from the original on 2010-12-23. Retrieved 2011-01-30. Planetware: Priests of Re tombs, Heliopolis—Al-Matariyyah. accessed 01.28.2011
- ↑ Griffith, Francis Llewellyn (1911). . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 945.
- ↑ http://www.planetware.com/cairo/heliopolis-obelisk-egy-cai-obe.htm Planetware: Masalla Obelisk, Temple of Re—Atum, Heliopolis—Al-Matariyyah . accessed 01.28.2011
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