Hedvig Győry: Mélanges offerts a Edith Varga „Le lotus qui sort de terre” (Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts Supplément 1. Budapest, 2001)
KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: Houses and households at Kahun: Bureaucratic and Domestic Aspects of Social Organization During the Middle Kingdom
Among the individuals appearing in the papyri of the Lot there is only one name that appears to bond the two groups: both the mother of Shepset, Hori's wife, and the mother of Teti, Wah's wife, are called Satsopdu. Moreover, the epithet st nt Gs-Bb is bore by both women. 71 The much discussed expression Gs-Bbt/Gs-Bby is commonly taken to designate a toponym in the Delta. 72 In the relevant documents it might refer to the birthplace of the two women. We may thus assume that they were sisters and that the two families attested in the Lot were connected by marriage. The genealogy of the two families can be reconstituted as follows (names of the two sisters in boldface): ? = Shepset ? = Satsopdu Djehuty = Harekhni Ankhren Wah = Teti Shepset = Hori Katsenut Mekten Iset Rudet Satsneferu ? Sneferu Wah's documents precede in time Hori's wpwt-\\sis. The compilation of the two imyt-pr documents of the brothers appears to be separated from Hori's death by about 15-20 years. Recently Johnson argued that Wah would have made his imyt-pr (LI) at the occasion of his marriage. 7- If she is right the marriage took place around the time when the contract was made, i.e. in the second year of Amenemhet IV. The only securely dateable document of Hori's family was drawn up following the death of Hori (1.3), when his son Sneferu Griffith, op. cit., pis. IX, 17, 28, and XII, 8. In pl. IX, 3, Shepset bears the title w r bt nt Gs-lib. F. Gomaà, Die Besiedlungen Ägyptens während des Mittleren Reiches I. Oberägypten und das Fayyum, TAVO 66/1, Wiesbaden 1986, pp. 128-129; Griffith, op. cit. (note I ), p. 21; S. Quirke, Gods in the temple of the King: Anubis at Lahun, in: Id., (ed.), The Temple in Ancient Egypt. New Discoveries and Recent Research, London 1997, p 26; R. Hannig, Großes Handwörterbuch Ägyptisch - Deutsch: die Sprache der Pharaonen (2800 - 95- v.Chr.), Kulturgeschichte der antiken Welt 64, Mainz 1995, p. 1399. The word being a toponym is made evident by the control notes from the pyramid site of Senwosret I, see F. Arnold, The South Cemeteries at Lisht II. The Control Notes and Team Marks, The Metropolitan Musem of Art Egyptian Publications 23, New York 1990, p. 25. The idea of the document being a marriage contract was suggested by Griffith himself, op. cit (note 16), p. 34, although rejected in a few sentences later in favor of his another proposal, i.e. it being a will, p. 35; recently discussed on the basis of Late Period parallels: Johnson, J., Speculations on Middle Kingdom marriage, in: A. Lcahy-J. Tait (eds.), Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of H. Smith, London 1999, pp. 169-172.
