Oldal 121 [121]
Similarly to Qenamun, Neferperet can firmly be attested only under the reign of Thut¬
mose III, however, there is a possibility that he served on under Amenhotep II. He is
known from a stelophor statue and the funerary cone DM 213. The latter indicates a
Theban burial place, although his tomb has not been identified. According to the limited
available sources of Neferperet, we know only two of his functional titles. One of them
is wb3 nswt wb “wj ‘royal wb3 clean of hands’,*® which also appears in its shorter version
wb3 nswt ‘royal wb?’ on the statue. We do not know anything about his activity in this
office, so we can only suggest that it was linked to his participation in the military cam¬
paign to Retjenu. It cannot be specified which campaign Neferperet refers to on his
statue, but according to his title smsw nswt hr h3s.t nb.t ‘follower of the king in every
foreign land’, also represented on his monument, his participation in more than one
military expedition is also possible. His honorific title hrd n k3p ‘child of the kap’ refers
to his childhood spent in a royal palace.
The black granite stelophor statue of Neferperet was found in 1904 in the cachette in
Karnak, and it is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (CG 42.121). The stele held by
Neferperet contains two registers: in the upper one the figures of Thutmose III and his
great royal wife, Meritre Hatshepsut can be seen; in the lower one two figures of the
owner are depicted kneeling in poses of adoration with praises addressed to the king
and the queen, respectively. A Atp-dj-nswt formula runs down on each side of the stele,
which names the king as foremost of Heneketankh, his memorial temple on the west
bank of Thebes, as well as Amun who resides in this temple. The main aim of stelophor
statues placed by favoured individuals in the temples was to ensure that they got close
to the deity after their death and thereby benefited from the offerings for their own
cult.*°* According to this fact and to the reference for the Heneketankh in the inscription,
one might suppose that the original place of the statue of Neferperet must have been in
this temple. At the same time, this assumption is contradicted by the fact that the statue
was found on the east bank in the temple of Karnak, where Thutmose III had built his
temple Akhmenu to serve his cult, which would indicate that it was the original place
of the statue there. 7
The back of the statue is occupied by an autobiographical inscription, with a reference
to the Heneketankh again, which would turn the balance to this temple in terms of the
105 In some publications other functional titles are mentioned as well, however, based on his remains,
none of them can be confirmed: ‘scribe’ in Maspero, 1906, 123, and Maspero, 1915, 123; ‘steward’ in
Komorzynski, 1962, 73; ‘royal tutor’ in Bryan, 2006, 113.
“°° For the function of the temples statues, see Guksch, 1994, 16-17.
47 See Haring, 1997, 145, n. 5. and Bryan — Hornung, 2002, 91.