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Ranefer - Supervisor or the Royal Workshops and High Priest of Ptah
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High Priest Ranefer - Supervisor of the Royal Workshops and High Priest of PtahDuring the Fifth Dynasty Ranefer was the High Priest of Ptah, chief god of the capital of Memphis. |
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As the Supervisor of the the royal workshops, he was able to obtain the services of the best sculptors of his time to sculpt a full-sized statue, which he then shut up forever in the funerary chapel of his tomb in Saqqara.
Brunton used the statue as the inspiration for this portrait.
The statue of the High Priest Ranefer - Polychromed limestone - is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.
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