ABSTRACT
Any examination of the monuments of Senenmut or analysis of his achievements must begin with Meyer's useful compilation of sources that carry this courtier's name. Her compendium is thorough2 and comprises a detailed description of the statues, ostraca, small finds, and architectural structures that pertain to him, with a view to placing each in chronological order and thereby reconstructing the course of his career and reasons for his disappearance. Although to some extent
1Ch. Meyer, Senenmut: eine prosopographische Untersuchung (Hamburg, 1982): 94ff, has effectively emphasized this point, particularly in regard to biographies of the 18th Dynasty.
