TY - CHAP

T1 - Some Remarks on Neha’s Spell for gaining Power over his Servant Statuettes

AU - Demidchik, Arkadiy E.

N1 - Demidchik A.E. Some Remarks on Neha’s Spell for gaining Power over his Servant Statuettes // The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt III / Ed. G. Miniaci, W. Grajetzki (Middle Kingdom Studies 12). London 2022. P. 73-79

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - A few comments to the inscription in cols. 12-25 on the west wall of the burial chamber of Neha at el-Qatta,previously discussed by Schneider (1977) and Allen (2013). This spell was believed to provide Neha, after hisburial, with magical power over representations (most probably statuettes) of his dependents designed to servehim in the Beyond. However, since an indispensable condition for the effectiveness of the spell was considered tobe the faultlessness of the acquisition of the representations, this was asserted in passages resembling an idealautobiography. The expression mr(y)t(=f) Ds=f ‘his own mr(y)t workers’ in col. 22 is a colloquial equivalent ofthe designation mr(y)t(=f) n(y)t Dt=f, which is written on the pedestal of a sculptural group of three (originallyfour) servant statuettes from the Dahshur tomb of Shepi (CG 512). This parallel may be of some significance, asin the selection and arrangement of the PT and CT spells Neha’s tomb is comparable to that of Siese, which isalso at Dahshur

AB - A few comments to the inscription in cols. 12-25 on the west wall of the burial chamber of Neha at el-Qatta,previously discussed by Schneider (1977) and Allen (2013). This spell was believed to provide Neha, after hisburial, with magical power over representations (most probably statuettes) of his dependents designed to servehim in the Beyond. However, since an indispensable condition for the effectiveness of the spell was considered tobe the faultlessness of the acquisition of the representations, this was asserted in passages resembling an idealautobiography. The expression mr(y)t(=f) Ds=f ‘his own mr(y)t workers’ in col. 22 is a colloquial equivalent ofthe designation mr(y)t(=f) n(y)t Dt=f, which is written on the pedestal of a sculptural group of three (originallyfour) servant statuettes from the Dahshur tomb of Shepi (CG 512). This parallel may be of some significance, asin the selection and arrangement of the PT and CT spells Neha’s tomb is comparable to that of Siese, which isalso at Dahshur

KW - ANCIENT EGYPT

KW - Middle Kingdom

KW - tomb of Neha at el-Qatta

KW - servant statuettes

KW - ancient EgyptianrReligion

UR - http://www.goldenhp.co.uk/mks.htm

M3 - Article in an anthology

SN - 978-1-906137-74-8

VL - III

T3 - Middle Kingdom Studies

SP - 73

EP - 79

BT - The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt III

A2 - Miniaci, Gianluca

A2 - Grajetzki, Wolfram

PB - Golden House Publications

CY - London

ER -