- Panehesy
The Egyptian noble Panehesy was the 'Chief servitor of the
Aten in the temple of Aten inAkhetaten ' ('Second Prophet of the Lord of the Two Lands'). He was also 'Seal-bearer of Lower Egypt' [Aayko Eyma, ed., "A Delta-Man in Yebu: Occasional Volume of the Egyptologists' Electronic Forum No. 1", p.35] . These titles show how powerful he must have been during theAmarna Period .His house has been located in the ruins of Amarna ["Journal of the Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society" by Manchester Egyptian and Oriental Society, Manchester UniversityPress 1935, p.19] , lying in the main city back from the Royal Road in Amarna. In this house was a large shrine which depicted
Akhenaten ,Nefertiti , and princessMeritaten making offerings to the Aten.He had a tomb constructed at
Amarna , Tomb 6 [ [http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/Projects/Amarna/guidebook/Places%20of%20Interest/NT/northtombsix.htm] Amarna North Tomb 6] containing scenes of himself and his family [Gay Robins, Ann S. Fowler, "Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art", University of Texas Press 1994, pp.130f.] and others showing the royal family [Robert Hari, "New Kingdom - Amarna Period: The Great Hymn to Aten", Brill 1985, p.24] , but his remains have never been identified. Later his tomb was turned into a Coptic place of worship for a while [Gay Robins et al., op.cit., p.60] and suffered damage.We know his grandfather was named Pa-nehas, and his name is phonetically equivalent to
Pinehas (Phineas) theLevite [Moustafa Gadalla, "Tut-Ankh-Amen: The Living Image of the Lord", Tehuti Research Foundation 1997, p.121] .References
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