Kerem in the Fitzwilliam Museum

Abstract

Publication of a dyad in the Fitzwilliam Museum (E. 21.1887), representing Kerem, also called Geregwaset, and his wife Abykhy (?). Their names may indicate a Semitic origin, but their five children, shown in relief on the sides and front of the statue, all have good Egyptian names. The piece probably dates to a point late in the joint reign of Hatshepsut and Tuthmosis III. Although Kerem's title, ‘doorkeeper of Hathor of Henketankh’, implies an association with the mortuary temple of Tuthmosis III, it is suggested that the statue may rather come from the ‘chapel of Wadjmose’, which seems to have housed a number of early Eighteenth Dynasty royal cults.