Horemkhauef

Horemchauef was a local official from the ancient Egypt of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1700-1550 BC). He is known primarily from his grave in Hierakonpolis and its grave stele on which he tells of his journey to the royal residence.

Horemchauef was first overseer of the priests of Horus and fields of Nekhen head. His father Djehuti wore almost the same title; his mother was the king of jewelry Tjet; his wife was the king of jewelry Sobeknacht. As children are known to the sons Djehuti, Sobeknacht and daughters Hormaacheru and Hesitef.

His grave in Hierakonpolis is a small grave condition, but it is among the few graves of the Second Intermediate Period, which are painted. The painting is now only partly preserved. In the grave of the tracer Sedjemnetjeru who has it probably pictured appears. In the grave, a stele found (now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, 35.7.55 ), on which he and his wife are depicted and on the also called his family members. The text on the stele contains a longer ideal biography and tells of his journey to the royal court after Itjtaui (probably at the modern village of el- Lisht ), where he at the court of the king a new cult statue of Horus and his mother ( certainly Isis ) obtained.

The text is of historical importance because it shows that Itjtaui, the capital of the 12th Dynasty, still served at the end of the 13th dynasty as a royal residence for Egypt.