Tjuneroy (also Tjenry) was an Ancient Egyptian official under king

Ramses II Ramesses II ( egy, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded as t ...

in the 19th Dynasty. Tjuneroy is mainly known from objects found in his tomb at

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. He came from an influential family. His father Paser (I) was royal

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and was working for the Amun temple. His brother Paser (II) was again royal scribe but was also overseeing royal building works. The tomb chapel of Tjuneroy was once decorated with reliefs that are now in the

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. One wall in the tomb chapel was decorated with a king list that is known as the

Saqqara Tablet The Saqqara Tablet, now in the Egyptian Museum, is an ancient stone engraving surviving from the Ramesside Period of Egypt which features a list of pharaohs. It was found in 1861 in Saqqara, in the tomb of Tjuneroy (or Tjenry), an official ("chief l ...

. Tjuneroy is also known from fragments of a door frame found at

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indicating that he lived there. His titles include ''chief lecture priest'' and ''overseer of all royal works''.

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: ''Ramesse II, his contemporaries'' (= ''Ramesside Inscriptions: Historical and Biographical.'' Vol. 3). Blackwell, Oxford 2000, {{ISBN, 0-631-18428-7, pp. 479–489

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13th-century BC Egyptian people Officials of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt Ramesses II