Digital Giza | Senetites (in Seneb)

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Type

Individual - Ancient
Gender

Female
Also Known As

Manuel de Codage : sntjts

Alternate spelling : Sentiotes

Alternate spelling : Senetiotes

Alternate spelling : Senetytes

Alternate spelling : Sentyotes

Alternate spelling : Senet-ites
Remarks

Wife ([Hmt=f] his wife) of Seneb (owner of Seneb, unnumbered mastaba excavated by Junker). Seated family group statue (Cairo JE 51281) of Seneb, his wife Senetites, and two children; found in situ in stone box (Cairo JE 51281) in mastaba of Seneb serdab (north of north false door). North false door inscribed for Senetites, identified as [rxt nswt Hm-nTr HwtHr Hm-nTr Nt] royal acquaintance, priestess of Hathor, priestess of Neith; also appears on false door (Cairo JE 51297) inscribed for Seneb, north inner jamb (second register, seated holding lotus); found in situ in mastaba of Seneb.

Tombs and Monuments 1

Western Cemetery, Seneb
- Site Name Western Cemetery

Finds 4

Fragments of false door of Senetites
- RPM_3135
Group statue of dwarf Seneb, his wife Senetites and their children
- EMC_JE_51280
Limestone box
- EMC_JE_51281
Limestone false door of Seneb
- GEM_12178

Published Documents 4

Bothmer, Bernard V. "On Realism in Egyptian Funerary Sculpture of the Old Kingdom." In Madeleine E. Cody, ed. Egyptian Art. Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 371-393. Originally published in Expedition 24/2 (Winter 1982), pp. 27-39.
- Date: 2004
Hawass, Zahi. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 154-165.
- Date: 1999
Hawass, Zahi. "The Statue of the Dwarf Pr-n(j)-anx(w) Recently Discovered at Giza." Festschrift für Werner Kaiser. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 47 (1991), pp. 157-162.
- Date: 1991
Junker, Hermann. "Mutter und Sohn auf einem relief des frühen Alten Reiches." Anzeiger der phil.-hist. Klasse der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jahrgang 1953, Nr. 14, pp. 171-175.
- Date: 1953

ID: KHM_AEOS_II_3053

Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Seneb

Description: Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba of Seneb, E face, N false door inscribed for Senetites, serdab (N of N false door), stone box (Cairo JE 51281), looking NE

ID: KHM_AEOS_II_3077

Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Seneb

Description: Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba of Seneb, chapel, offering room, false door (Cairo JE 51297) and granite offering stone inscribed for Seneb, looking W

ID: KHM_AEOS_II_3083

Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Seneb

Description: Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba of Seneb, chapel, offering room, false door (Cairo JE 51297), inner jambs and center niche (S inner jamb: [top register] Seneb in carrying chair supported by Shedi and Peri, and accompanied by Hetjes and Weri, [middle register] offering bearers identified as Senenu, Iisatjef, Itiu, [bottom register] three unnamed men in long kilts; N inner jamb: [top register] seated figure of Seneb and scribes Inkaf, Hemiunu, Hetepka, [second register] seated figure of Senetites and her children Auibenkhufu, Semeretredjedef, Ankhmaredjedef, [third register] offering bearers identified as Kaihep, Tefi, Wep, [bottom register] offering bearers identified as Wennen, Peni, Iika), looking W

ID: KHM_AEOS_II_3087

Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Seneb

Description: Junker Cemetery (west): mastaba of Seneb, chapel, offering room, false door (Cairo JE 51297), N inner and outer jambs (N inner jamb: [top register] seated figure of Seneb and scribes Inkaf, Hemiunu, Hetepka, [second register] seated figure of Senetites and her children Auibenkhufu, Semeretredjedef, Ankhmaredjedef, [third register] offering bearers identified as Kaihep, Tefi, Wep, [bottom register] offering bearers identified as Wennen, Peni, Iikap; N outer jamb: [top register, below inscription] standing figure of Seneb and two offering bearers identified as Maakheru, Idkhu, [second register] three scribes, two identified as Neferka, Hemiunu, [third register] Iu, Kessunebef, Peru, Nesekha, [bottom register] Impi, Ihi, Nefret), looking W