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Batiires, also Bati - ires and according to another reading bed rest, is the name of an early Egyptian royal court lady, which is not directly occupied contemporary, but once appear in a later time source. A grave stele from the 1st dynasty, however, could be related to their person.

Documents

The name " Batiires " appears in an inscription on the stone Cairo, the counterpart to Palermostein (5th Dynasty, reign of Neferirkare ). There it is explicitly titled as mother of the ruler Semerkhet (1st Dynasty). Since Semerkhet was the direct successor of King Anedjib, is suspected in the reverse that Batiires perhaps Anedjibs wife. However, evidence for this are still lacking.

In Abydos was located in an adjacent grave in the necropolis of the King (Pharaoh) the a large, polished grave, where the name remains " ... sr.t " and the remains of a Determinativs for a seated woman are obtained. He is now in the Louvre.

About the Name

The spelling of names on the Batiires Palermostein has performed in the course of research on various readings. Henri Gauthier reads Tef -ti - iriset, I.E.S. Edwards and Toby Wilkinson read Bat -iri -set. Peter Kaplony turn, reads Bat -ir - ites. According to Edwards, Wilkinson and Kaplony the name means " Motherhood is her companion ." Silke Roth, however, transcribed Bati - ires and translates this as " Bati was facing her."

Identity

There are attempts to equate the lady on the Cairo stone with the lady from Abydos. The names of both women are written with an Aries symbol. The characters on the show Cairo fragment that the ram was read here as " Ba ". On the stele, however, he will be as "ser " to read, after which the inscription refers. It has been suggested that the writers of the Cairo fragment 500 years later the old reading no longer knew and falsely attributed to the ram reading the " Ba " tasks.

The maid of honor from Abydos seems a special position at court to have enjoyed since her grave is unequal in size in comparison to the conventional private graves and is located near the main entrance of the royal necropolis. However, this description applies to two graves, one of which the lady must have been. The terms of position and architecturally prominent grave system and the unusually large and carefully edited stele encourage the assumption that " Batiires " and " ... Seret " one and the same person and Batiires was a queen mother, because the emphasis of the tomb of a royal maid of honor to the similar case of the Queen Meritneith recalls.