| Pentawer | |
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 Mummy of the "Unknown Man E", likely identified as Pentawer | |
| Born | c. 1173 BCE Thebes |
| Died | 1155 BCE |
| Burial | Probably at DB320 |
| Father | Ramesses III |
| Mother | Tiye |
| Religion | Ancient Egyptian religion |
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| Pentawer in hieroglyphs | |||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||
Pentawer (also Pentawere and Pentaweret) was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 20th Dynasty, a son of Pharaoh Ramesses III and his secondary wife, Tiye.[1] He was involved in the so-called "harem conspiracy", a plot to kill his father and place himself on the throne. The details of his trial are recorded in the Judicial Papyrus of Turin; he committed suicide following his trial.[2] A candidate for his body is a mummy known as "Unknown Man E", discovered in the Deir el-Bahari cache in 1881. This mummy is unusual as it was found wrapped in a sheep or goat skin and was improperly mummified, being left with all his organs. Bob Brier has suggested that this mummy does indeed belong to the disgraced prince;[3] DNA analysis has confirmed a father-son relationship with Pentawer's known father, Ramesses III, with both sharing the same Y chromosomal haplogroup and half of their DNA.[4]
- ^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.193
- ^ de Buck, A. (December 1937). "The Judicial Papyrus of Turin". The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology. 23 (2): 152–164. doi:10.2307/3854420. JSTOR 3854420.
- ^ The Mystery of Unknown Man E, by Bob Brier, 2006, Archaeological Institute of America.
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