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Name Sources
All sources mentioning Senedj are in fact from a later time. The earliest one dates from the middle of the 4th Dynasty. There appears the name in a cartouche on a false door in the mastaba tomb in Saquarra belonging to the high priest Shery. Shery held the title “overseer of all wab-priests of king Peribsen in the Necropolis of king Senedj”, “Great one of the ten of Upper Egypt” and “god´s servant of Senedj”. Senedj's name is written in archaic form and set in a cartouche, which is an anachronism, since the cartouche itself was not used until the end of 3rd Dynasty under king Huni. But then, it was clear, that the inscription was made during the 4th Dynasty when Shery lived while the archaic form indicating merely, the writer copied the name rather from an early 3rd Dynasty source than writing it down.
Another source dates already from the 18th Dynasty, thus, a lot later. There, the name is part of a king list in the coffin of a royal female. The list starts with Senedj, followed by a destroyed name. Then the list continues with Antef, Mentuhotep II, Senusret II, Senusret III, Sekheaenre and Ahmose I. That is 3rd Dynasty, 11th Dynasty, 13th Dynasty and 17th Dynasty. In other words, more or less in the right order but with big gaps and just an attempt to document the noble origins of the deceased.
Then, the usual source aka the king lists od Turin, Abydos and Saquarra who all list Senedj conform his existence, but since they are from the Ramesside era, they are about two thousand years away from being contemporary.
Identity Problems
Senedj is no Horus name so the problem to link him to an archaeological confirmed Horus name persists. Now, some egyptologists claim, the inscription in Shery's tomb would prove Senedj is identically with Seth-Peribsen. But the names are strictly separated and the order and relation is made explicitly clear: Shery served under Peribsen as wab-priest in a necropolis founded by Senedj. They were two different persons and obviously Senedj had to be king before Peribsen. Which is also consistent with the king lists.
The real question ...
I put out a theory which is based on the assumption, Wadjenes and Senedj would be maybe brother with Senedj being the younger one (see Nynetjer). A consequence of this theory would be, that the later separated lines of Upper and Lower Egypt would descend from those brothers. The question would be, which line from which brother. But this is already answered by Shery. Since he was overseer of the wab priests under Peribsen, he had to be in Upper Egypt. Not really a surprise because his tomb is in Saquarra. And since his workplace was a necropolis in Peribsen's realm, this proves, that Senedj was the one ruling Upper Egypt, otherwise why would he found a necropolis there?
Tomb
Senedj's tomb hasn't been found. Chances are, he was buried in Saquarra. Shery was a priest performing the services of the mortuary cult. However, the inscription only says, Senedj founded the necropolis, it doesn't say, Shery actually served the mortuary cult of Senedj! So the argument, that preists of the mortuary service usually weren't buried far from the kings they served limbs here a little, since we actually don't know he served Senedj.
Still, there are some gallery tombs left, mostly under Djoser's step pyramid. And the first three kings of the 2nd Dynasty (with Senedj being #4 or #5) were not only buried at Saquarra but even next to where Djoser would construct his pyramid later. The gallery tombs A and B are right south of it. Talking about the same neighborhood here.
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