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unnamed.*® As mentioned above, the father of Suemniut was lamnefer, and his grandfather Paahauti. His grandmother is not known, while the identity of his mother is uncertain. Porter and Moss state that she was Merit, who was mentioned in the tomb, ** but she was not designated as the mother of Suemniut, only as the wife of Iamnefer, namely nb.t pr §m%j.t n Dhwtj ‘lady of the house, and chantress of Thoth’. She also appears on the monuments of Iamnefer with the same title.*” On his graffito in Aswan, seven sons as well as seven daughters of Iamnefer and Merit are named, but none of them is Suemniut. If the mother of Suemniut was really Merit, he may have been a late child who was born after the graffito was finished. On a statue in Leiden (V 46) Iamnefer appears with a certain Mi, who was sn.t=f wr.t-hnr.wt n Dhwtj ‘his sister, great of the ladies of the harem of Thoth’. Mi could also have been the mother of Suemniut, but in this case she might have passed away early, probably during childbirth, after which Iamnefer married Merit. This would also be an explanation for Suemniut missing from the children named on the graffito, as well as for Merit only being mentioned in the tomb as the wife of lamnefer. The situation would be the same in the case of the sister of Suemniut, ‘chantress of Amun’, Iuny, with whom he is represented on a stele in Cairo (JE 27840).4* At the same time, Mi might also have been the real sister of lamnefer, not his wife. Without more evidence the identity of the mother of Suemniut cannot be definitively ascertained. At the end of his active career Suemniut supposedly retired in Thebes, as the connection of his retirement titles to Amun and his resting place imply. Besides his tomb, there are four funerary cones assigned to him: DM 143, DM 156, DM 163, DM 181, with different titles on each of them. Unfortunately, they do not provide any information on the sequence of the titles in time, and in this respect, on the career of Suemniut. IIL.9. Neferweben Date: ca. Amenhotep II (based on the stylistic criteria of the tomb decoration) Genealogy: unknown Tomb: Theban Tomb 238 #5 Porter — Moss, 1960, 188 (3). #° Helck, 1955-1958, 1451; Porter — Moss, 1960, 187. #7 Helck, 1955-1958, 1454-1455. 35 | would hereby like to express my gratitude to Dr Susanne Binder, who provided me with the photo of the stele in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 27840).
