Siese the Younger

Siese the Younger Superintendent of the Granary
Statue of Siese the Younger from the Brooklyn Museum
Predecessor	Qeni
Dynasty	19th Dynasty
Pharaoh	Ramesses II and Merenptah
Father	Qeny
Mother	Wiay

Siese the Younger was the Superintendent of the Granary during the reign of Ramesses II and Merenptah.^[1] Siese and his family came from Asyut.^[2]

A statue depicting the god Wepwawet on one side and the goddess Isis-Hathor on the other, was found in 1913 an may have come from Siese's tomb.^[1] The text on the rear surface states that Siese is the son of Qeni and the grandson of Siese the Elder.^[3]

Siese the Younger is further attested on:^[3]

A statue from the Louvre (A. 73)
A statue now in the Brooklyn Museum (47.120.2)
A relief fragment
Sarcophagus
Two ushabti figures
A stela belonging to Menmare-em-hab.

References

1 2 Elizabeth Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt, Society of Biblical Lit, 2007, pp 173-174
↑ Jochem Kahl, Mahmoud El-Khadragy, Ursula Verhoeven and Monika Zöller, The Asyut Project: Fourth Season of Fieldwork (2006), in Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur, Bd. 36 (2007), pp. 89
1 2 Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries (Ramesside Inscriptions Translations) (Volume III) Wiley-Blackwell. 2001, pp 102-104, ISBN 978-0631184287

Officials and priests during the reign of Ramesses II

Viziers

Viceroy of Kush

Overseer of the treasuries

Nebiot
Amenmose
Panehsy
Suti
Pay-ten-hab
Amenemone

Overseer of the Granary

High Priest

of Amun	Nebwenenef Paser Bakenkhonsu Roma called Roy
of Ptah	Huy Pahemnetjer Didia Khaemwaset Neferronpet Hori I
of Re	Bak Amenemope Meryatum
of Osiris	Mery Wenennefer Hori Yuyu
of Anhur	Hori Minmose Anhurmose

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