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To: Ciexyz
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Horus Netjerykhet / Netjerykhet Ranwb
by Francesco Raffaele
New Kingdom graffiti (Step Pyr. Complex) were already known to mention the name Djoser (Netjeryhet's birth-name?); the earliest monument known reporting the name 'Djoser' (in cartouche) is the base of a statue of Sesostri II (Berlin 7702; cf. Wildung, Die Rolle, 1969, 59-60). I wonder if this name couldn't have been perhaps originated from a misinterpretation of the hieroglyph Dsr in evidence on the upper left part of numerous boundary stelae from the Saqqara complex (in Inpw/Anubis' epithet Khenty Ta-Djeser, see fig. above).

As we've said, this king is likely to have been the last in his dynasty under whom the necropolis of Bet Khallaf (mastabas K1, K3,K4,K5 this last perhaps for Nedjemankh) (cfr. Garstang 1903 and 1904).

If he was the foundator of the Dynasty, Netjerykhet would be the earliest king whose name was found on the Wadi Maghara reliefs (copper and turquoise mines), where Sekhemkhet, Sanakht and several later kings will also leave incriptions [Gardiner-Peet, 1952, pl. I.2; Weill, Recueils des Inscriptions ..., 1904, 99f.; Kahl et al. 1995, 120f.]
I like his suggestion regarding the confusion over the name for this pharaoh.
5 posted on 04/21/2007 7:09:29 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Monday, April 18, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: SunkenCiv

In the 70’s scholars referred to the pyramid as the “Zoser” pyramid.


6 posted on 04/21/2007 7:24:57 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Is the American voter smarter than a fifth grader?)
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