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I was looking in to the archives and found that is was said that zanakht(nebki) was of nehesi origins. I cannot find this anywhere. could you please point me in the right direction?
Doug M Member # 7650
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Probably from the small pyramid found in the South of Egypt.
quote: His name also appears on the island of Elephantine in southern Egypt near Aswan on a small pyramid. Another of the few sources we have evidencing this king is a fragment of a sandstone relief from Wadi Maghara in the Sinai. It would seem that he, along with Djoser, began the exploitation in earnest of the mineral wealth of the Sinai peninsula, with its rich deposits of turquoise and copper. It shows the king's name in a serekh before his face.
The relief depicts Sanakhte, who is about to smite an enemy, wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt. We also know of a priest of Nebka's mortuary cult who appears to have lived in the reign of Djoser.
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But where is the exact evidence that identifies the guy as Nehesi?
abdulkarem3 Member # 12885
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the closest i came to finding such a statement found on one of myra's website in which she quotes Petrie
quote:Petrie, W.M.F., The Making of Egypt, London. New York, Sheldon Press; Macmillan, 1939
Page 105:
"Motives of Dynasty III: A breath of life came from the Sudan. The new dynasty was headed by Sa-nekht of Sudany type, and he gave fresh impetus which was later continued by Zoser. Yet there was no new invention, but only a strengthening of the old style, without a different art. The Sudany infusion continued in the upper classes, as seen in the head of Seker-kha-bau."
so it might be off of observation rather than text
Djehuti Member # 6698
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^ Unfortunately such an observation is totally unreliable. As we all know Budge was a racialis (racist) whose label of "Sudanese" type was just another euphimism for 'negroid type'. And we know one needs not to look further south in the Sudan to find such features when there is more than ample evidence of such types in the Egyptian area.
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