Trois membres d'une famille sacerdotale thébaine

Two Unpublished Bases of Statues at the Egyptian Museum, Cairo (Je. 37998, Je 37448) From Karnak Cachette

“…When the owner reused the statue, he left the front line of the earlier inscriptions as it is and changed the texts on the other two sides. rdwy nṯr ẖry pȝ nṯr ʿȝ wnmy n ḥȝt, this part is confused, but the title rdwy-nTr refers to the priest who held the front of the god's boat (or statue) in the festival procession [36,37]. Here the sign ḥȝt was written in a strange way, fig.…”

“…Coenen compares the title rdwy-nṯr with the old title wʿb n hȝt 1mn, "pure priest of the fore of Amun" and suggests that this priest took part in the procession of the sacred bark of Amun as a bearer [38]. The front and the back of the Amon bark Wsr-HAt [37] has two sides, the right and the left side; every priest carries one side whether in the front or in the back of the divine bark, the word HAt and HAty appeared in variant methods to refer to the front (the face) of the Amon bark [39,12]. On the statue of (Cairo JE 38061), it is attested twice on the title [9] wab n wnmi tA HAt n pA nTr aA "the purification priest of the right side of the front of the great god".…”

“…It is clear that the titles belong to the Theban clergy because most of the known examples came from Thebes [9] except few examples of Lower Egypt. These are the statue of WAH-ib-re probably from Sais where the title was written in a short form Hm @r wADty [18], and again Hm @r wr wADty from Kôm El-Hisn [19,20], These titles appeared in full writing on the block statue of Nesmin from the Karnak cachette as [13,21], and [21,22] in which the last writing form confirms that the two cobras read WADty. H. de Meulenaure and C. Traunecker suggest these titles were connected specifically to the goddess Nekhbet in El-Kab and the god Horus in Edfou [21,13,22], while its form on the statue of @r-sA-Ast from Karnak cachette (JE37149) which reads as [23,9] Hm-HDt Hm @r Hm-nTr Nxbt maybe intended to refer directly to the goddess Nekhbet in El-Kab.…”

“…These are the statue of WAH-ib-re probably from Sais where the title was written in a short form Hm @r wADty [18], and again Hm @r wr wADty from Kôm El-Hisn [19,20], These titles appeared in full writing on the block statue of Nesmin from the Karnak cachette as [13,21], and [21,22] in which the last writing form confirms that the two cobras read WADty. H. de Meulenaure and C. Traunecker suggest these titles were connected specifically to the goddess Nekhbet in El-Kab and the god Horus in Edfou [21,13,22], while its form on the statue of @r-sA-Ast from Karnak cachette (JE37149) which reads as [23,9] Hm-HDt Hm @r Hm-nTr Nxbt maybe intended to refer directly to the goddess Nekhbet in El-Kab. The king in the texts of Edfou temple carried the title Hm HDt and wr wAD, Ibrahim suggested that Hm HDt refers to the Upper Egyptian priestly title and wr wAD refers to the lower Egyptian priestly title [24].…”