Senmut
Senmut
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The Queen – pharaoh Hatshespsut’s favourite. Sanmut was born in a middle – class family in Hermontis. He was Hatshepsut’s favourite and probably her lover. To her, for whom he had a total devotion, he owes his privileged position. Besides managing Ammone’s properties, “director of the two granaries”, “director of the fields”, he also managed the royal family’s properties. He supervised the great undertakings such as the ctting, the making and the raising of some obelisks in the temple in Karnak the building of Hatshepsut’s funeral temple in Deir el-Bahari. Besides he had charges strictly bound to the royal family: he was Nefrure’s tutor, who was Tuthmosi’s III and Hatshepsut’s daughter, he was responsible for the queen-pharaohs hairstyle and insigna for her jubilee. Senmut was also a studious, he was able to invent sophisticated cryptograms using resources from the hyeroglyphic writing. He also put more than twenty statues in the temples in Tebe and in Upper Egypt, he established a cenoteph in Gebel el-Silsila, he ordered to build two tombs for himself, one of which hidden in a corner of the court in Hatshepsut’s funeral temple, that held a kind of sarcophagus reserved only to the pharaohs. He was even represented in this temple, an extremely rare privilege for a simple subject. Unfortunately, a short time before the queen’s death, he fell in disarace and his monuments ravaged, his name and his images were cancelled.
Senmut and Neferure |
