The Life and Afterlife of a high ranking Egyptian by Heather Tunmore
The Dynasty 6 Vizier named Weni the Elder, who lived about four and a half thousand years ago, had a detailed biography written on the outside of his tomb.
This talk looks at the life outlined in the biography and the information found during the excavation of family tombs.
Heather is senior Epigrapher on the Abydos Middle Cemetery Project and Honorary Associate of the WA Museum. With the kind permission of the Egyptian Department of Tourism and Antiquities, Heather Tunmore has worked as part of an international team on the Abydos Middle Cemetery Project in Egypt for the past 16 years. She loves working with Old Kingdom art and really enjoys reassembling lost and broken fragments of art and hieroglyphs.”
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