Webensenu

{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian prince}}

Webensenu was an ancient Egyptian prince of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He was a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep II{{dodson}}, p.141 and the brother of pharaoh Thutmose IV.

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He is mentioned, along with his brother Nedjem, on a statue of Minmose, overseer of the works in Karnak.{{cite book|author=Wolfgang Helck|title=Urkunden der 18. Dynastie, Heft 18|location=Berlin|year=1956|page=[https://archive.org/stream/urkundendesaegyp1819steiuoft#page/n5/mode/2up 1447]}} He died as a child and may have been buried in his father's tomb, KV35, possibly being the mummy laid alongside Tiye and the Younger Lady. His canopic jars and shabtis were found in the tomb as well.{{cite book|author=Betsy Bryan|chapter=The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period|editor=Ian Shaw|title=The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt|publisher=Oxford, New York|year=2000|isbn=978-0192804587|page=248}} His possible mummy is still there,{{dodson}}, pp.135, 141 and it indicates that he may have died around the age of ten.

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