Tentosorkon papyrus – London 4

Tentosorkon – Tnt-sArknA
Also known as Tjentosorkon, Tjentsarken, Tentserken, Tentsarkena, Tentosorkon
Ranke I, pg. 363, 3, Ranke II, pg. 326, 8
The name means ‘The (female) servant of Osorkon’Tentosorkon (That of Sorkon), a name of Libyan origin which appeared around the 21st dynasty in the Delta, and was popularised in the 22nd dynasty with the advent of the Osorkon kings (Aubert pg. 96)
Provenance: probably Thebes, see also Shabtis Bab el Gasus
Late 21st Dynasty

Mistress of house, Chantress of Amen-Re, the king of the gods

Liliane Aubert mentions the papyrus in her as publication on pg. 96 as connected to Bab el Gasus, but this has not been proven. The British museum states that this papyrus was purchased from Sir John Gardner Wilkinson in 1852. However, the record of purchases from Wilkinson on the BM’s website gives the year as 1834. So again, it is not clear when and from whom the payrus was acquired. If the papyrus was indeed acquired in the second half of the 19th century, it is impossible that it came from Bab el Gasus. But since the purchase date does not match Sir John Gardner Wilkinson’s purchase of the antiquities, I have provisionally added the papyrus as a suggestion at Tentosorkon in Bab el Gasus

Funerary papyrus
See the 3 frames in the British Museum, EA9919,1, EA9919,2 and EA9919,3