Whose ID is this?

So who is the deceased mentioned in Leiden AAL 146? From the final sign of the text we know he was a man, and the rest of the text tells us that he was an oarsman, someone responsible for transports by ship. He may even have been involved in the transport of stone blocks used for the construction of monuments, such as the pyramids, since that is the context we know ‘oarsmen’ best from.

He belonged to a huge team of oarsmen, the supervisor of which is mentioned at the beginning of the text, with the name Khenmes. The names of the deceased’s father and mother were Neb and Wenennefer, respectively. The place he came from was called Hut, a town in a southern Egyptian district called Wadjet. The man’s own name, at the end of the text, is not quite clear, but possibly ends in -rehu.

That is all we learn from this ancient limestone ID, which was probably deposited in the grave together with the deceased oarsman, whose identity was thus meant to be preserved for eternity.