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Koenraad Donker van Heel - Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt
05.07.2017, 08:25

Биографична монография с любопитен сюжет - разказ за живота на забележителна жена-бизнесмен, извоювала самостоятелно с успешни сделки своето място и тежест в обществото. Госпожа Дженхор живе в преломната епоха когато настъпва краят на Късното царство и владетелите на Саис, страната е завладяна от Ахеменидска Персия (VI-V в. пр. н.е.), но бунтове и размирици я разтърсват непрекъснато. Въпреки трудните времена обаче, деловата дама от Карнак съумява да създаде процъфтяващо семейно предприятие, занимващо се първоначално (наследения от баща ѝ бизнес) с подсигуряване приношения за гробниците от Тиванския некропол на западния бряг на Нил, но разширило впоследствие дейността си със селскостопанска ферма, търговия с роби и др. Най-близкият ѝ сътрудник е нейният втори съпруг Псенес, но дори и той е пределно наясно кой е босът във фирмата.


Koenraad Donker van Heel - Mrs. Tsenhor: A Female Entrepreneur in Ancient Egypt, Cairo-New York, American University in Cairo Press, 2014  

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Tsenhor was born about 550 BCE in the city of Thebes (Karnak). She died some sixty years later, having lived through the reigns of Amasis II, Psamtik III, Cambyses II, Darius I and perhaps even Psamtik IV. By carefully retracing the events of her life as they are recorded in papyri now kept in museums in London, Paris, Turin, and Vienna, the author creates the image of a proud and independent businesswoman who made her own decisions in life. If Tsenhor were alive today she would be wearing jeans, drive a pick-up, and enjoy a beer with the boys. She clearly was her own boss, and one assumes that this happened with the full support of her second husband Psenese, who fathered two of her children. She married him when she was in her mid-thirties. Tsenhor--who was probably named after her father's most important client--was a working wife. Like her father and husband, she could be hired to bring offerings to the dead in the necropolis on the west bank of the Nile. For a fee of course, and that is how her family acquired high-quality farm land on more than one occasion. But Tsenhor also did other business on her own, such as buying a slave and co-financing the reconstruction of a house that she owned together with Psenese. When Tsenhor decided to divide her inheritance, her son and daughter each received an equal share. Even the papyri proving her children's rights to her inheritance were cut to equal size, as if to underline that in her household boys and girls had exactly the same rights. Tsenhor seems in many ways to have been a liberated woman, some 2,500 years before the concept was invented.Embedded in the history of the first Persian occupation of Egypt, and using many sources dealing with ordinary women from the Old Kingdom up to and including the Coptic era, this book aims to for ever change the general view on women in ancient Egypt, that is far too often based on the lives of Nefertiti, Hatshepsut, and Cleopatra.

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