Hordjédef

Wire of the Pharaon Khéops, Hordjédef (or Djédefhor ) does not seem to have been Pharaon himself, although its name is registered inside a cartouche on a graffito of Ouâdi Hammâmat. A stele known as distorts door , preserved at the Museum off Fine Arts off Boston Hordjédef watch breathing a flower of lotus, ritual act generally achieved by priestesses. The text indicates: That the voice left for him of any festival, each day .

Director of the scribes, chief of the secrecies, prophet of Re, Hordjédef was, with the eyes of the Egyptians, one of the major characters of the time of the pyramids. Charged with inspecting the crowned places of the necropolis of Memphis, he was regarded as wise so famous that many dignitaries of the area took again his name. According to a tale, Hordjédef played a crucial role during the construction of the large pyramid of his/her father.

Untiring researcher who, by traversing the temples, had to collect several crowned texts, he was also a writer, author of a Enseignement , which one still studied under the Ramessides () and remained popular until the Roman epoch. There remains about it unfortunately only one small number of fragments.

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Hordjédef made build its tomb, for his wife and him, in the east of the large pyramid. It is about a double Mastaba (G 7210-7220), excavated by Reisner between 1902 and 1939. Very degraded, it provides little information on Hordjédef, named Chef of all work of the king .

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