His father was Nesipaherenmut, the Fourth Prophet of Amun, and his mother was Isetemheb. According to the Karnak Priestly Annals, Tjanefer served as the Fourth Prophet of Amun in the 40th regnal year of Psusennes I (c. 1008 BCE). He was later promoted to Third Prophet, as it is mentioned in a papyrus found in his tomb at Bab el-Gasus (which is now housed in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo).^[2]

He married Gautseshen, the daughter of High Priest Menkheperre and Princess Isetemkheb. They had two sons, Pinedjem, later Fourth Prophet, and Menkheperre, Third Prophet of Amun.^[3]

• Claude Traunecker, Les residents des rives du Lac Sacré, Le cas d'Ankhefenkhonsou, CRIPEL 15 (1993), 83-93.
• Gerard P.F. Broekman, On the Chronology and Genealogy of the Second, Third and Fourth Prophets of Amun in Thebes during the Twenty-First Dynasty in Egypt, GM 174 (2000), 25-36.