Some information about Horemheb in EGYPT:
1-
The parents of Horemheb are not known.
2-Two
wives are known from horemheb's non-royal tomb in Saqqara.
Amenia
was likely Horemheb's wife before he came to the throne.
Mutnodjemet
was Horemheb's Great Royal Wife. Some speculate that Mutnodjemet is identical
to the sister of Nefertiti mentioned in the tombs in Amarna. Mutnodjemet was
buried in Horemheb's tomb in Saqqara in Egypt, probably in year 12 of his reign. A body
was found of a woman in her forties who seems to have died in childbirth.
There
are no known brothers or sisters of Horemheb and no known children.
3- Horemheb is a well-known general from the time
of Pharaoh Tutankhamen the king of Egypt. Horemheb served Tutankhamen and may have served
Akhenaten before that. Some have suggested that Horemheb may be identical to a
general named Pa-aten-emheb from the Amarna period, but this identification is
by no means certain.
4- Horemheb must have started his career
under Akhenaten or even earlier. There is some speculation that a courtier
named Paatenemheb was none other than Horemheb during Akhenaten's reign.
Paatenemheb had a tomb prepared in Amarna (tomb 24) and he has the titles
King's scribe, General of the Lord of the Two Lands, Steward of the Lord of the
Two Lands. Given the later titles of Horemheb it is possible that soon after
Tutankhamen returned to Thebes, Paatenemheb changed his name to Horemheb and
chose to have a temple tomb built in Saqqara now that the necropolis in Amarna
was being abandoned.
5- The temple tomb in Saqqara in EGYPT gives us some
idea of the importance of Horemheb during the reign of Tutankhamen. The general
is seen leading prisoners before the King and Queen of egypt and his titles show that he
must have been a man of quite some influence.
According
to Breasted's Ancient Records, the titles include: "Hereditary prince,
count, wearer of the royal seal, sole companion, privy councilor of the palace,
superior in the whole land, fanbearer at the right of the king, general of the
Lord of the Two Lands, real king's-scribe", "deputy of the king,
presiding over the Two Lands", "Privy councilor of the palace",
"chief prophet of Horus, lord of Sebi", "king's-follower on his
expeditions in the south and north country" and "presider over the
Two Lands, in order to carry on the administration of the Two Lands, general of
generals of the Lord of the Two Lands" to name but a few.
6- After Tutankhamen's death Aye takes the throne of Egypt, but only rules for three of four years. It is likely that
Horemheb continued to serve as general of Egypt's army during that time period.
After Aye's death Horemheb become the next pharaoh of Egypt.
7-Major monuments:
Temple
Tomb in Saqqara
This
tomb was excavated in the 1970's. The tomb dates to the time of Tutankhamen
when Horemheb was an army leader. The tomb was later used for the burial of
Horemhbe's wife, Egyptian Queen Mutnedjemet. A body of a lady in her forties was found
and she was buried with the body of a baby. This likely points to the fact that
Mutnedjemet died trying to provide her husband with an heir.
The temple tomb is about 48 m
long and 15 m wide. The superstructure consists of a forecourt, a pylon, an
outer courtyard, a statue room flanked by two storerooms, an inner courtyard,
and three offering-chapels.
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