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of his mother, presumably from another marriage since the inscription labels the daugh¬
ter as sn.t-fn mw.t=f Mrjj(.t)-Pth ‘his (ie. Sarenenutet Tjaui) maternal sister Meritptah’.
Another monument of Sarenenutet Tjaui, which provides information on his family,
is a limestone offering table, the fragments of which are now located in Cairo (JE 27987),
in Philadelphia (29-87-474) and in a private collection in New York.’ Its front side shows
several relatives sitting in the bottom right corner, among whom the wife of Sarenenutet
Tjaui, Baket appears in the first place, with his brothers and sister behind her. Two of
his brothers, Ptahmi and another one whose name has been lost, were designated as
sdm-§ n B ntrt ‘servant of the goddess’ that might also indicate their activity in the service
of Werethekau. The sitting figure of Sarenenutet Tjaui was depicted above the relatives,
however, and now only his feet and the bottom of the offering table before him can be
seen. At the left end of the front side, two individuals are depicted one above the other
in the function of sem-priest, seemingly labelled as sdm-‘s T3wj p3 nds(?) ‘the servant,
Tjaui, the younger’ and T3wj p3 wr “Tjaui, the older’, respectively. According to
Silverman,°* they could be the sons of Sarenenutet Tjaui, as at the same time he notes
that it might also be possible that the two persons represent the same individual and the
two bird determinatives were intended to be the same, in spite of the clear difference in
their tail. In any case, the identity of these persons is not clearly determined, and as they
are sem-priests, the son or sons of the deceased might be expected in this function,
however, there is no mention of a son or sons of Sarenenutet Tjaui with the same name
on his monuments, which, however, is in itself not a reason for exclusion. On the right
end of the back side two figures are also represented one above the other, however, since
this area is quite fragmented, only part of the name of the upper figure is legible, pre¬
sumably Ptahmi, one of the brothers of the deceased.
Besides the Cairo statue and the relief block mentioned above, the offering table with
its peculiar textual content augments the specially designed monuments of Sarenenutet
Tjaui.® The front side contains chapters 25 and 595 of the Pyramid Texts, and the major
part of the text has a parallel in the tomb of Rekhmire.”° The back side of the offering
table represents chapters 268, 269, 275, 276 and 307 of the Pyramid Texts, while the left
7” A fragment that originated from Luxor was sold in an auction of the Bonhams auction house in
2017, see https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/24251/lot/15/?category=results&length=9o0&page=1,
last access on 21.10.2020.
508 Silverman, 1982, 68.
5% For a detailed discussion of the textual program of the monument, see Clére, 1981, 213-234; Silver¬
man, 1982, 67-70.
*° Davies, 1943, pl. LXXVI; Clére, 1981, 224-225.