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Date Name Relatíve Cognomen/Epithet Warna Ramesses III foreign Paluka Ramesses III foreign Inini Ramesses III foreign the Libyan Qedendenna Ramesses III — Ramesses IV(?) foreign Baalmeher Ramesses III — Ramesses 1V(?) foreign Ramessessethherwenemef | Ramesses IV — Ramesses V | basilophoric Usermaatresekheper Ramesses IV basilophoric Heqamaatreneheh Ramesses IV basilophoric Nebmaatreper-? Ramesses V — Ramesses VII | basilophoric Ramessesnefer[...] Ramesses IX(?) basilophoric Neferkareemperamun Ramesses IX basilophoric Ines Ramesses XI foreign Nebmaatresekheper-? 20! dyn. basilophoric Table 7. Indicators of foreign origin of the officials II.2. GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF THE OFFICIALS It is reasonable to surmise that the officials serving the ruler as wb3 nswt ‘royal wb?’ — and also as wdpw nswt ‘royal wdpw’ — essentially belonged to a certain royal palace which was their main place of function. Apart from the actual whereabouts of the ruler, a certain number of these officials might have resided and maintained their duties in each royal residence, at the same time, there were also several ‘royal wb3s’ who escorted the king either during his travels through the country or when he joined military campaigns.** However, the original sources do not provide much information regarding this question. One is able to draw conclusions concerning the place of function of these officials only in some cases based on their titles, the contents of their monuments or their textual sources indicating a southern or a northern residence. Further indication might be the location of a person’s burial, however, one has to be cautious in drawing conclusions solely based on this type of evidence since the ideological motivation behind choosing the location of burial places among private individuals changed during the time of the New Kingdom. » The title smsw nswt, with or without any specification, was borne by Djehuti (1), Neferperet, Suemniut, Heqanakht and Ptahemwia (1), while the title jrj-rd.w/, again with or without any specification, appeared on the monuments of Qenamun, Suemniut and Parennefer. For a general discussion on these titles, see p. 63-64.
