Now maybe yall can help be bust a devil...this story is vexing me..."immortalized robbers"
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The robbery of Sobekemsaf's tomb[edit]
The
Abbott and
Leopold-Amherst Papyruses, which are dated to Year 16 of
Ramesses IX, state that this king's royal pyramid tomb was violated and destroyed by tomb robbers. The confessions and tomb robbery trials of the men responsible for the looting of Sekhemre Shedtawy Sobekemsaf's tomb are detailed in the latter papyrus which is dated to Year 16, III Peret day 22 of Ramesses IX. This document relates that a certain Amenpnufer, son of Anhernakhte, a stonemason from the Temple of Amun Re "fell into the habit of robbing the tombs [of noblemen in West Thebes] in company with the stonemason Hapiwer" and mentions that they robbed Sobekemsaf's tomb along with six other accomplices in Year 13 of Ramesses IX.
[9] Amenpnufer confesses that they
In his trial, Amenpnufer testifies that he and his companions dug a tunnel into the king's pyramid with their copper tools:
Amenpnufer states that the treasures taken from the two royal mummies amounted to "160 deben of gold" or 32 lbs (14.5 kg).
[11] The document ends with the conviction of the thieves—with a probable death sentence—and notes that a copy of the official trial transcripts was dispatched to Ramesses IX in
Lower Egypt. Amenpnufer himself would have been sentenced to death by
impalement, a punishment which "was reserved for [only] the most heinous crimes" in Ancient Egypt.
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Why did Shalmaneser say that whoever relied on Pharoah his "hand would be piereced"?
why would a "stonemason" want to rob when he was likely very well off...unless this story has a different purpose