Talk:Hemiunu

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• Where is Hemon's tomb exactly – it needs a reference Markh 09:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hemon's tomb is in the Great Pyramid of Giza.

• Why is Hemon/Hemiunu thought to be the builder of the great pyramid? Is it only deductive based on the record that he was cheops/khufus' architect? Are there any textual references, relief carvings or hieroglyphs indicating that he ACTUALLY built the great pyramid? It would be excellent if these things could be included in the wiki, as what currently stands (like SO MUCH in Egyptology) is a theory without evidence. If, as I suspect, the only genuine ancient writing found in the great pyramid is the singular evidence that Khufu's architect would have been the one to build the pyramids, then the link of Hemiunu to the great pyramid is as tenuous as Cheops' himself. Although the (now former) great antiquities dictator Zahi Hawass will not indulge such theories, likely as a matter of misguided "national" pride, the rest of the Egyptological community is hardly so convinced by one inscription in perfect red ink still unfaded today with at least 150yrs of oxygen exposure, nevermind the hieratic spelling errors. Please! Learned scholars help reference texts, or carvings that will make this theory convincing! As it stands, it and this tirade criticizing it are but sound and fury. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.108.7.220 (talk) 02:15, 27 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The name for the article is "Hemon", and yet the body text of the article repeatedly uses "Hemiunu". Am assuming that the former is variant for his name, but is it the preferred name? I only ask since the texts I have seen the name come up have never used the "Hemon" variant of the name. Captmondo 17:16, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

• I've moved it, as the new spelling is more notable than "Hemon" Markh 21:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good, I think that was the right thing to do. Captmondo 23:52, 10 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Hemiunu statue visited the USA in the Splendors of Ancient Egypt tour of 1999-2000 while the Pelizaeus Museum was being rennovated. The exhibit had about 202 items, (including one Book of the Dead papyrus).

Of note, adjacent to his statue at the beginning of the exhibit hall, at a 90 deg. angle to his statue, the wall had hanging his-(Hemiunu's) archaeological lintel with its archaic forms of hieroglyphs. The date stated at the exhibit, was 2450 BC, as the only other 'old' item was an offering formulaic, Hotep offering lintel, or "relief", dated to 2400 BC. The date of his works are now known to be in Khufu's time of the 2500s, the 26th century BC.

The lintel hieroglyphs are not in columnar register-lines, but about 6-8 columns of 2-4 hieroglyphs each stated his titles and (?). (The lintel is not reproduced in the "Slendor of Ancient Egypt", abbreviated, 88-page exhibit book.) The exhibit visited PhoenixAZ, PortlandOR, FL, and.... (from the SonoranDesert.. southwestHot-Arizona)...Mmcannis (talk) 18:23, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

good idea--166.205.137.162 (talk) 14:00, 24 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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