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and Heqamaatreneheh, who bore this title under Horemheb, in the early 19" dynasty and under the reign of Ramesses IV, respectively, do not contribute to expanding our knowledge of this office. From the reign of Ramesses III, there are two instances where an wb3 nswt ‘royal wb3’ was involved in a legal matter of the donation for the cult statues of the king. In the 24" year of the ruler, Hori is represented in the inscription of a stele from Memphis (no. 2882) as amember of the great law-court of Heliopolis in the presence of which the fact of the donation was announced and the personnel and the goods ordered for the cult service were presented.” One year later, in the 25" year of Ramesses III, a land donation of 50 aruras was recorded on a stele (in a private collection) for the cult statue of the ruler erected in Pi-Ramesse.”° Prince Ramessesmeriamun was named as the supervisor of the donation and Ramessesankherneheh was responsible for providing for the cult of the statue. He was determined as wh3 nswt n pr hd ‘royal wb3 of the treasury’, the title of which obviously refers to his personal service in the provision of the colossus of the king — actually representing the king himself. For carrying out this task, supervision over goods and supplies for the cult of the statue was required as the extension of the title also clearly indicates. In these two cases, the officials acted in their actual function as ‘royal wb3’, nevertheless, not in the service of the living ruler, but his cultic image. In any case, their duty was the same: seeing to the personal provision of the ruler himself. In the 10" regnal year, Ramesses IX rewarded his ‘high priest of Amun-Re’ Amenhotep, the act of which is recorded on the outer face of the eastern wall between the seventh and eighth pylons in Karnak. Three ‘royal wb3s’ played an important role in the event: jmj-r3 pr hd n pr-3 wb3 nswt 'overseer of the treasury of the Pharaoh, royal wb} Amenhotep, wb3 nswt s$ n pr-% ‘royal wb3, scribe of the Pharaoh’ Nesamun and wh3 nswt whmw n pr-3 ‘royal wb3, herald of the Pharaoh’ Neferkareemperamun.” They were the notables assigned to favour the high priest Amenhotep and to present him with the rewards of the ruler, they represented the ruler himself and acted on his behalf. Furthermore, the fact that in the passage of describing the honouring of Amenhotep, his designation is 75 For a detailed discussion on Hori, see p. 221, for the inscription of the stele, see [73] Stele, Memphis, 2882 on p. 529. 76 According to the inscription, the cult statue ‘is settled in the house of Amun of Ramessesheqaiunu’, which refers to the royal residence of Pi-Ramesse. See Chappaz, 2005-7, 6, n. 5, with further references. For a detailed discussion on Ramessesankherneheh, see p. 215, for the inscription of the stele, see [61] Stele in private collection on p. 519. ~7 For a detailed discussions on Amenhotep, Nesamun and Neferkareemperamun, see pp. 245, 242. and 244, respectively, for the inscription of the rewarding scene, see [89] Rewarding scene of Amenhotep, Karnak on p. 581.
