Meretites: A Woman of Power
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Mallaury Guigner
Summary
In the Old Kingdom, among the individuals linked to the hairdresser’s trade, Meretites is the only woman recorded to be connected with this field. However, she is not represented as jr.t-šn, i.e. ‘hairdresser’, as is the case in the Middle Kingdom; but as jmy(.t)-rꜣ js-šn, i.e. ‘director of the hairdressing office’. However, this title does not appear in any index or lexicon, making Meretites the only holder of this unpublished title. Thus, Meretites tells us that a woman in this period could be linked to the human body, more specifically the hair, but also that a hairdressing office existed. Would this office have had a particular function? Would the complete title of Meretites allow us to know the status of this particular woman in Egyptian society?
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- P. BnF 239: A Demotic Wine Account on the Recto of a Document of Breathing
- Meretites: A Woman of Power
- Two of a Kind
- Chnumhotep II. von Beni Hasan
- Where Were the Slave Markets?
- A Case Study on Intertextuality and Textual Transmission from the Mid-Eighteenth Dynasty Theban Necropolis
- Some Remarks Concerning the Standards Depicted on the Frieze of Louvre C15 Stela
- The Cemetery of Al-Kulah at Bahariya Oasis
- The Strength of the Deir el Medina Workforce in the Years Following the Ramesside Renaissance
- The Antu-List Reconsidered: A Synoptic Reading of Edfu and Athribis Scented Material
- Cavalrymen, Dowries, and Greek Onomastics: Two Oxyrhynchite Marriages
