Ptahshepses
Sign in to savePtahshepses () was the vizier and son-in-law of king Nyuserre Ini during the Fifth Dynasty. As such he was one of the most distinguished members of the royal court. Ptahshepses' mastaba complex in Abusir is considered by many to be the most extensive and architecturally unique non-royal tomb of the Old Kingdom.
Key facts
- Egyptian dignitary.Name
- Ptahshepses
- Egyptian dignitary.egyptian_name
- p:t-H-A51-s-s-A52Ptḥ-Šp.ss
- Egyptian dignitary.Image
- Ptahchepses_Abousir_112004.jpg
- Egyptian dignitary.Caption
- Ptahshepses depicted on the pillar of his mastaba
- Egyptian dignitary.Style
- Vizier of Egypt
- Egyptian dignitary.Tenure
- 2450 BC
- Egyptian dignitary.Pharaoh
- Ini
- Egyptian dignitary.Burial
- Abusir, Egypt
- Egyptian dignitary.Wife
- Khamerernebty
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4 sectionsContents
- Discovery of the Mastaba
- Mastaba design
- Life of Ptahshepses
- References
Ptahshepses () was the vizier and son-in-law of king Nyuserre Ini during the Fifth Dynasty. As such he was one of the most distinguished members of the royal court. Ptahshepses' mastaba complex in Abusir is considered by many to be the most extensive and architecturally unique non-royal tomb of the Old Kingdom.
==Discovery of the Mastaba== In 1843, Richard Lepsius of Berlin University designated the Abusir site next to the pyramid complex of Sahure as "pyramid no. XIX" and subsequently published this in his Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien. Jacques de Morgan's excavation of the site in 1893 revealed the site was actually part of a mastaba. It was not until some seventy years later that the revived interest in the site with its discovery of the complete structure in a series of excavations from 1960 to 1974 led primarily by Zbyněk Žába and Abdu al-Qereti.
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