Chonouphis
| Name: | Chonouphis |
| Variants: | Konouphis; Petesis; Memphite sealers-embalmers |
| Place: | L01 - Memphis |
| Century: | BC03 BC02 |
| Begin: | BC 241 |
| End: | BC 64 |
| Language/script: | bilingual: Demotic and Greek |
| Material: | papyrus |
| Texts: | 32 |
| ↳ certain: | 32 |
| ↳ uncertain: | 0 |
| ↳ erroneous: | |
| Type: | private family archive (5 generations) |
| Protagonist: | Chonouphis and his son Petesis |
| Description: | In the archive survive papers of five generations of undertakers, covering 130 years, making possible the reconstruction of a family tree which spans eleven generations. In the earlier period the undertakers are choachytai, later they are called sealers-embalmers. |
| Studies: | Thompson, Memphis under the Ptolemies, 1988, p. 155-189, with a list of texts on p. 280-282 |
| Lists: | Montevecchi, La papirologia, 1988, p. 250 no. 13a; Seidl, Ptolemäische Rechtsgeschichte, 1962, p. 32 no. 14; Lüddeckens, LÄ VI, 1986, col. 882 (VIII. D) |
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Leiden, National Museum of Antiquities London, British Museum Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale Paris, Louvre Pavia, Musei Civici St Petersburg, Hermitage Museum The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum Turin, Museo Egizio Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum |
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