Editing Senenmut (section)

== Family ==
Senenmut was of low commoner birth, born to literate provincial parents, [[Ramose and Hatnofer]] (or "Hatnefret") from Iuny (modern [[Hermonthis|Armant]]). Senenmut is known to have had three brothers (Amenemhet, Minhotep, and Pairy) and two sisters (Ahhotep and Nofrethor).<ref>[[Peter Dorman|Peter F. Dorman.]]. '' The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical Methodology'', London: Kegan Paul Ltd., 1988. {{ISBN|0-7103-0317-3}}. pp. 165-166.</ref> However, only Minhotep is named outside chapel in his tomb [[TT71]] and in his hypogeum [[TT353]], in an inventory on the lid of a chest found in the burial chamber of Ramose and Hatnofer.<ref>A. Lansing & W. Hayes, The Egyptian Expedition, 1935-1936,' BMMA 32, January 1937, Section II:24</ref> More information is known about Senenmut than many other non-royal [[Egyptians]] because the joint tomb of his parents (the construction of which Senenmut supervised himself) was discovered intact by the Metropolitan Museum in the mid-1930s and preserved. Christine Meyer has offered compelling evidence to show that Senenmut was a bachelor for his entire life: for instance, Senenmut is portrayed alone with his parents in the funerary stelae of his tombs; he was depicted alone, rather than with a wife, in the vignette of Chapter 110 from the [[Book of the Dead]] in hypogeum numbered as TT353 and, finally, it was one of Senenmut's own brothers, and not one of his sons, who was charged with the execution of Senenmut's funerary rites.<ref>Christine Meyer, Senenmut: ''eine prosopographische Untersuchung'', Verlag Borg, (Hamburg, 1982), pp.8-9</ref>
[[File:Stone inscribed with the name of Senenmut, from Thebes, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin.jpg|thumb|left|Stone inscribed with the name of Senenmut, from Thebes, Egypt. Neues Museum, Berlin]]