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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 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).
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:
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 While pioneering, his work is considered unreliable and has been superseded by better-informed scholarship.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)
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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 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).
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:
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)