Talk:Qenna

Mistake
This article is the result of a mistaken reading of Budge's Book of the Dead which identifies Nehebka as the goddess of revivified matter. Qenna was a male human merchant, not a goddess. -- 71.34.42.234 (talk) 17:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)


 * I agree this article should probably be deleted. The article was only created in the first place because of a mistake. -- 138.192.30.178 (talk) 18:53, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

Not Mistake: Qenna and his papyrus.
I don't think it should be deleted. Problems are:

1. There are many persons named Qenna known to Eyptology. For instance:

A workman at Deir el-Medina, the village housing personnel who prepared tombs in the Valley of the Kings, Qenna son of Prehotep (Davies, 1999, p. 267).

Another Deir el-Medina workman, Qenna the son of Anhurkhawy. This Qenna had a wife named Meretseger and daughters Tanodjemkhaba and Nefertariemheb (Davies, 1999, p. 22).


 * Davies, Benedict. 1999. Who's Who at Deir el-Medina. Nederlands Instituut voor het Nabije Oosten. Leiden.

2. Is article about Book of Dead of Qenna, or about person?

The Qenna referred to in the article is the one for whom a notable papyrus copy of the Book of the Dead was recovered. It is unclear, and unlikely, this is either of Davies' Qennas. He lived during late Dyn. 18 or early Dyn 19 and is identified as "the Osiris merchant Qenna" (wsjr Swtj qnnA) in his papyrus. The Qenna papyrus, now at Leiden (Rijksmuseum, Leemans T2), included an unusual passage about an afterlife place called "the house of hearts." See van Dijk (1995) for discussion of Qenna's dates and the house of hearts:


 * Jacobus van Dijk. 1995. "Entering the House of Hearts: An Addition to Chap. 151 in the Book of the Dead of Qenna." In OMRA 75, pp. 7-12. This document is at Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, Netherlands. It is catalogued in Worldcat and at the museum website.

3. Get rid of E.A. Wallis Budge as a reference. While pioneering, his work is considered unreliable and has been superseded by better-informed scholarship. Jessegalebaker (talk) 04:37, 8 June 2014 (UTC)