Seneb (king's son)

Stela Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, showing Seneb in front of the god Min

Seneb [1] was an ancient Egyptian living in the Thirteenth Dynasty about 1750 BC. He is known from a number of sources around king Sobekhotep III, who was his brother. The father of Seneb was the god's father Mentuhotep, his mother was the king's mother called Iuhetibu.[2] Seneb bears the title king's son, although he was not the son of a king. In the Thirteenth Dynasty the title king's son was often used as title of honor and did not automatically mean that the title bearer was the son of a king. Seneb's own family is known from a stela now in Vienna (ÄS 135).[3] His wife was called Nebtit and their children were:

  • Elder of the hall Sobekhotep.
  • Lady of the house Iuhetibu (named for her paternal grandmother)
  • Trainer of the dogs Mentuhotep (named for her paternal grandfather)
  • Henut.[4]
  1. ^ PERSONS AND NAMES OF THE MIDDLE KINGDOM
  2. ^ K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800-1550 BC, (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), 223-224
  3. ^ Irmgard Hein, Helmut Satzinger: Stelen des Mittleren Reiches I, Mainz 1989, ISBN 3-8053-1002-1, 44-47
  4. ^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson (2004). ISBN 0-500-05128-3 p.107