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III.80. Usermaatresekheper Date: Ramesses IV (based on the cartouche on the stele) Genealogy: unknown Tomb: unknown Remains: — stele, Wadi Hammamat No. 12 Functional title: wb3 nswt The only remains of which Usermaatresekheper is known is a rock-stele (No. 12) at Wadi Hammamat, dated to the reign of Ramesses IV. The inscription commemorates an expedition in the 3" year of the ruler in order to acquire stone for the Place of Truth. The leader of the expedition was the ‘high priest of Amun’ and ‘overseer of work’ Ramessesnakht, in whose company — among some other high ranking officials — there were two wb3 nswt ‘royal wh3s’, Usermaatresekheper and his colleague, Nakhtamun. The usage of the title wb3 nswt here is not the one that one would expect in a report on an expedition, and it is rather wdpw nswt that usually appears in these sort of special missions.*® A possible explanation could be the position of the two officials in the assignment, the intensity of their active participation in it, namely that they do not function as active leaders but — as the phrasing of the text implies, — they ‘only’ accompany the leader in the mission, possibly as agents of the ruler in the role of observers. III.81. Unknown 4 Date: Ramesses IV Genealogy: unknown Tomb: unknown Remains: — stele, Serabit el-Khadim, No. 304 Functional title: wb3 nswt Hardly anything has remained on a free-standing, round-topped stele in Serabit elKhadim (No. 304), except some signs that refer to the 4" year of a ruler, most likely Ramesses IV, as well as a wb3 nswt ‘royal wb?’ whose name has also been lost. Since "3 For further discussion on the usage of the two titles, see p. 91. 54 Kitchen, 1983b, 29; Schulman, 1986, 202.
