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papyrus Turin, Cat. 2002*# from the 1% year of Ramesses V*# in order to inspect placing
some burial pieces of equipment into a royal tomb. There were five wdpw nswt ‘royal
wdpws’ among the members of the delegation, the highest number acting together in
one case according to the available sources. Besides Amenkhau, Atumnakht, Ramesses¬
sethherwenemef, Sobekhotep and Parenakht were also present. Amenkhau had a special
task during the visit: he oversaw the craftsmen of Deir el-Medina during an uncertain
working phase (perhaps polishing?), as well as being sent for alabaster-engravers who
worked inside the tomb.
Other inscriptions relate the visit of the officials to the Valley of the Kings in less
detail: Nebmaatreper-? and Kar inspected the work on the royal tomb according to the
ostracon BTdK 659°° most likely under the reign of Ramesses VI or Ramesses VII,”" the
ostracon CG 25247," probably from the reign of Ramesses IX, mentions that Ramess¬
esnefer|...] visited the royal tomb on the day the decoration of its door-jambs was finished,
the Theban graffito No. 1860a,”* it is supposed, from the time of Ramesses X, com¬
memorates the sealing of the tomb of an unnamed king by a five-member delegation
with Pareherwenemef among them, and in a necropolis journal’ relating from the 17"
year of Ramesses XI* Menmaatrenakht acts together with a ‘vizier’ Wenennefer in
giving orders regarding what the workmen were tasked with at the royal tomb.
However, in several cases, due to the damage suffered by the inscriptions or the
laconism of the account itself, the specific purpose of the visit of the delegations as
well as ‘royal wdpws’ cannot be ascertained. However, some documents reveal that
their permanent place of duty was in Memphis or Pi-Ramesse.** According to the text
on the ostracon CG 25504 when finishing their task the officials went back to the
north,” and Bay explicitly declares on his ostracon CG 25766 that he was a visitor to
Thebes from the north.**
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For the text of the papyrus, see [74] Pap. Turin 2002 on p. 545.
9 Gutgesell as well as Schulman mistakenly dated the document to the reign of Ramesses IV. Gutgesell,
1983, 226; Schulman, 1986, 202. For discussion of the date, see Helck, 2002, 18.
"50 For the text of the ostracon, see [85] Ostracon BTdK 659 on p. 575.
* Dorn, 2011, 411.
"52 For the text of the ostracon, see [88] Ostracon, Cairo, CG 25247 on p. 578.
"3 For the text of the graffito, see [92] Graffito, West Theban 1860a on p. 596.
54 For the text of the papyrus, see [94] Journal relating to the Theban Necropolis on p. 598.
5 Gardiner, 1948, 64; Helck, 1958, 417.
*° For the place of function of the officials, see chapter II.2.1. on p. 48.
57 For the text of the ostracon see [53] Ostracon, Cairo, 25504 on p. 496.
"58 For the text of the ostracon see [58] Ostracon, Cairo, CG 25766 on p. 515.