Anen

Aanen, also Anen, was an Egyptian priest, brother of the Great Royal Wife Tiye and thus the king Amenhotep III Schwager.

Aanen was the son of cattle superintendent Yuya and his wife Tuya. His father came from Ipu ( Akhmim ) and was also a prophet of God mins Another child of the couple was the king's wife Tiy. It is also sometimes suggested that the future King Eje II was her child.

In the wake of the rise of his family Aanen held the office of the second prophet of Amun. In this office he was succeeded by a certain Simut, which was still the fourth prophet of Amun in the 20th year of the ruler, but later rose to become the second prophet of Amun.

Aanen died shortly before 30 year of King Amenhotep III. His grave ( TT120 ) is located in Abd el- Qurna in Thebes -West. His mother Tuya mentioned her son on their outer box-shaped coffin. Only from this naming is known the connection Aanens to Tuya.

A standing figure Aanens is now in the Museo di Torino (No. 5484 ). It has a height of 1.42 meters and is covered with one of the official costume of the Sem- priest corresponding panther skin, which is additionally provided with a star pattern to draw attention to the great astronomical knowledge Aanens. The statue contains the inscription:

" The hereditary prince, count, the sealer of the Lower Egyptian king, who may approach his master, very popular in the Royal home and consistently in favor in the palace, a church father, purely on the hands, a lector priest who knows the nature of heaven, the greatest the show ends in Re Temple, Sempriester in Upper Egyptian Heliopolis, the matters to their order leads and soothes the gods with his voice, the second Amunsprophet, Aanen. Justified. "