![]() The second part consists of explicit sexual acts – it openly shows a man engaging in sexual acts with a woman. The artist possessed a considerable level of skills – he had a good mastery of human feelings, together with other critical aspects of human life such as sexual feelings (Antelme and Rossini 23). One seems to reflect he may have suffered a crisis of faith, others may display instead a deep piety for Amun and pride in the royal mummy reburial project he carried out in the service of the god.The tube is divided into three parts, with the first part consisting of birds and animals – it humorously show animals performing different human activities such as climbing tree to obtain fruits, playing musical instruments, and driving chariots. This paper seeks to create a biography of Butehamun through the study of these things he left behind. Two houses he lived in have been excavated, one with inscriptions about his family. Butehamun is unusually well-documented, leaving behind many letters, labels on coffins he worked with, graffiti, and highly unusual imagery on his own coffins. That project seems to have been successful: The mummy of every single king from the 18th through 21st Dynasties that has been identified and was found in a tomb was found in the two caches KV 35 or TT 320 (with the sole exception of Tutankhamun). In many respects Butehamun was a tomb raider in the service of the High Priests of Amun. Instead he was given the task by the High Priests of Amun to remove and rewrap royal mummies and rebury them in secret caches, while plundering them of their gold and other valuables for the coffers of the priestly rulers of Thebes. ![]() A member of a well-known family who had long lived in the village of Deir el-Medina working on the tombs in the Valley of Kings, Butehamun’s coming of age saw invasion and civil war in Thebes, and the end to the making of new tombs in the Valley, as the New Kingdom came to an end. ![]() ![]() This is a biography of the scribe Butehamun. The composition is a Ramesside historical fiction, most likely written during the first half of the Twentieth Dynasty, when the memory of the vizier Useramun evidently still loomed large. The text on the Turin papyrus also raises questions about the theme of circumcision and the use of the metaphor of silver and gold to designate the vizier and the king, respectively. Here the author presents a new facsimile and study of the text, clarifying several palaeographic issues and shedding further light on the meaning of this rather enigmatic composition, which has no known parallel in Egyptian literature, but echoes a scene in Useramun's tomb, TT 131, showing the vizier Ahmose Aametu introducing his son Useramun to the king, who appoints him as his father's successor. Although this text was already known to Champollion, no in-depth study of it has been carried out since the publication of its first copy by Pleyte and Rossi in 1869-1876 and of its first transcription and translation by Helck in 1955. A text referring to his appointment by the king is preserved on the verso of papyrus Turin Cat. The powerful vizier Useramun was in office from year 5 to year 28 or 34 of the reign of Tuthmosis III, succeeding his father, Ahmose Aametu.
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