Siese the Younger
Superintendent of the Granary
Statue of Siese the Younger from the Brooklyn Museum
PredecessorQeni
Dynasty19th Dynasty
PharaohRamesses II and Merenptah
FatherQeny
MotherWiay

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]

References

  1. ^ a b Elizabeth Frood, Biographical Texts from Ramessid Egypt, Society of Biblical Lit, 2007, pp 173-174
  2. ^ 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
  3. ^ a b 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
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