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statue and a funerary cone, and there is no information on his activity under previous or subsequent rulers. In all likelihood, he bore the title wb3 nswt wb ‘wj ‘royal wb3 clean of hands’. In spite of the limited sources, plausible conclusions drawn concerning the career of Qenamun can be based on his titles on his two remains.** His black granite stelophor statue was found in a poor condition among the remains of the temple of Thutmose I, called Khenemetankh, built by Hatshepsut in Asasif.3® The present location of the statue is unknown. The head and the feet of the kneeling figure were broken as well as the rear part of the base. The rectangular stele was decorated with a cornice atop it and a small offering table carved out of the base at the bottom. There were eight columns of inscription on the stele, six on the front and one on each side. Each of the six columns on the front of the stele contained a htp-dj-nswt formula naming various gods and presenting Qenamun in his different offices. The text lines on the sides of the stele were identical, they named the owner as wb3 nswt w°b “.wj n ntr nfr Mn-hpr-R“ 'royal wb3 clean of hands of the good god, Menkheperre’, at the same time they dated the activity of the owner as well as the time of origin of the statue. Qenamun might have been of Theban origin based on his and his wife’s name, who was called Amenhotep, as well as his two religious titles wb n Jmn ‘wab-priest of Amun’ and jrj-°.t n Jmn ‘head of the magazine of Amun’. He might have acquired these titles under the reign of Hatshepsut, taking into consideration the importance of the Amun domain during that time, nonetheless, this is pure speculation without any proof. Besides these religious titles, his other early official title must have been ‘royal wb3 clean of hands’. Serving in the royal household as a personal servant of the king, he obviously joined his lord on his Nubian campaign or campaigns, which is proved by his title jrj-rd.wj n nb B.wj hr h3s.t rsj.t ‘attendant of the lord of the Two Lands in the southern land’. This title was introduced under Thutmose III and it mainly refers to some sort of military service, either as an actual participant in battles, or — in a more general sense — a position in the army in the personal attendance of the king.*”* It remains uncertain, however, when this action took place, as it appears that few military campaigns of Thutmose III took place to the south during his sole reign. There seems to be another possibility that the title » Van Siclen, 1991, 156. %4 Van Siclen, 1991, 156-160; Gessler-Löhr, 1997, 34-36. > Barakat, 1981, 29-30; Barakat, 1983; on the identification of the temple, see Iwaszczuk, 2011, 23. ° Guksch, 1994, 65-66. 8 8
