We had a discussion on another board about Bakenrenef and this may be of interest:

I did find that there is . From what I read it's in Boston.

According to this site http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/admin ... ziers.html Bakenrenef was the Vizier of Northern Egypt. Hence the tomb at Saqqara?

There's page from the University of Pisa that shows a reconstruction of the tomb of Bakenrenef:
http://www.egittologia.unipi.it/pisaegypt/saqqara.htm

A (poor) translation using google:
Quote:
The great archaeological exploration of tomb (the rupestre one?) of the visir Bakenrenef (L 24) was begun in the 1974 from the Chair of Egyptology of the University of Pisa under the direction of Edda Bresciani. The jobs still continue, subsidize from a contribution of the Ministry Foreign policies you Italian, Office Cultural Relations. Situated to some hundred of meters to south-east of one of most famous monuments of the world, the pyramid (to gradoni) of Djozer Pharaoh of III the Dynasty (2617-2599 a.C.), the tomb is dug in falesia the north of Saqqara, that it faces the plain of Menfi. The owner of this monument is prince Bakenrenef, son of Padineit, and visir of Psammetico I, founding of XXVI saitica dynasty (664-624 to C). All the complex dug in the cliff, from the facade to the vestibolo, the long one knows it to pillars to knows it of the offered ones to the sanctuary placed side by side from the two small cells, had been originally covered of beautiful limestone blocks. The archaeological exploration undertaken to leave from 1974 had like scope the protection and the restoration of this monument therefore degraded and therefore important, nearly regale for its dimensions (measure 40 m of length and i its pools come down end beyond the 16 m. of depth) and for the original wealth of the decorations; the ipogeo is preceded from one short with the income flanked from the pylons; the court and the pylons have been discoveries from the pisana archaeological mission, but the pylons now are hidden under the asphalted road; sand and detritus cover the access and escarpment falesia to ipogee others tombe sottostanti.Dal time of the discovery from part of the Jumel French in 1820, the tomba have been admired from celebrate visitors of the slid century, like J. F. Champollion (the decoder of the geroglifici) and Ippolito Rosellini (father of the Italian Egittologia) when they guided their combined shipment, the franc-Tuscany Shipment in Egypt and Nubia between 1828 and 1829. Rosellini described the tomba in the its "most magnificent Newspaper" defining it "of the tombe of Saqqara"; in 1828 it had acquired to limestone Alexandria the sarcofago of Bakenrenef, and it carried it to Florence, where still it can be admired in the Archaeological Museum (Cat.1705/2182).

720-664Love those Google translations. Is there a translation for the translation?

Anyway, I was the one on the other forum who asked for information on Bakenrenef the vizier, and Merytre-Hatshepsut provided that valuable information. We have sections of inscribed walls in our exhibit at the Field from the Saqqara tomb of the vizier, and judging from that bit of digital recreation the Italians have on their website, a spectacular tomb it must have been.

Bakenrenef was vizier to Pharaoh Psamtik I Wahibre (664-610 BCE), Dynasty 26. This was when the government ruled from Sais, I think. Pstamik's cartouches are seen on the wall sections we have at the Field (minus his pronomen), and other inscriptions there tell us that Bakenrenef was also a governor and sem-priest.

But for all we know pencilbox1 was inquiring about Bakenrenef the pharaoh, who reigned at the end of the 24th Dyansty, about 60 years before the vizier. Well, there was only one other pharaoh then (Tefnakht), and neither was what you'd call a significant ruler.

Frankly I know more about the vizier Bakenrenef than the pharaoh. Hey, Merytre-Hatshepsut, maybe Martin will give us a writeup on the vizier's tomb in his sequel-book to The Hidden Tombs of Memphis. Yeah, that's right, I'm still on that kick. I really wish he would write another book on Memphite tombs because there's so much more to tell!