Puimre, also spelled Puyemrê, was an
ancient Egyptian noble, architect and
Second Priest of
Amun
Amun (; also ''Amon'', ''Ammon'', ''Amen''; egy, jmn, reconstructed as (Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian) → (later Middle Egyptian) → (Late Egyptian), cop, Ⲁⲙⲟⲩⲛ, Amoun) romanized: ʾmn) was a major ancient Egyptian ...
during the reign of
Thutmose III of the
18th Dynasty of Egypt. He was the son of Puia and Lady Nefer-iah, and had two wives: Tanefert and Sensonb.
His wife Sensonb was the daughter of Puimre's superior, the
High Priest of Amun Hapuseneb
Hapuseneb was the High Priest of Amun during the reign of Hatshepsut.
Biography
His mother, Ah-hotep, was a member of the royal harem; the name of the mother has survived on a piece of limestone found in the temple of Thutmose III at Qurna (Exca ...
and his wife Amenhotep. Sensonb served in the temple of Amun as a
Divine Adoratrice.
[O'Connor, David and Cline, Eric H. Thutmose III: A New Biography University of Michigan Press. 2006 .]
Puimre's tomb – namely
TT39 – is located in
El-Khokha, part of the
Theban Necropolis, on the west bank of the
Nile
The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...
, opposite to
Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
.
References
Priests of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
15th-century BC clergy
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