Akhtiaa

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Akhtiaa in hieroglyphics
Surname
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Achtiaa
(Achti aa)
3ḫtj ˁ3
Official title
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Iun-kenmut
Jwn-knmwt
Support of the Kenmut
Official title

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Hem-netjer-hut-netjer-Neb-ka
Ḥm-nṯr-ḥwt-nṯr-Nb-k3 Servant of
God from the temple of God of Nebka
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Portrait of Akhtiaa, above him his name and several titles

Achtiaa , also Aa-Achti or Achti-aa and Aaachti (in proper name spelling ) was an ancient Egyptian official in the transition period from the 3rd to the 4th dynasty .

To person

Akhtiaa held various positions, for example "head of all the king's labor" and "great of the ten of Upper Egypt ". Relief fragments from his grave found in Abusir show the name of the king ( pharaoh ) Nebka . The reliefs from his grave are now in various museums ( Louvre , Egyptian Museum Berlin and Leipzig ). The lower part of a statue is now in Berlin.

In addition, he led numerous titles, including " support of the Panther fur / Kenmut " and a " servant of God from God's Temple of Nebka". Achti-Aa was one of two known priests who may have performed the funeral service for King Nebka of the 3rd dynasty .

His wife's name was Meritenes and was one of the first female nobles to bear the title Rechet-nesu ("confidante of the king").

Some more titles

  • "Sab official" - Sab - S3b
  • "District Administrator" - Adj-mer - ˁḏ.-mr
  • “Head of the dining tent” - Cherep-seh - Ḫrp-sh
  • "Friend of the house" - Semer-per - Smr-pr
  • “Head of the Throne” - Cherep-en-isut - Ḫrp-n-jswt
  • "Head of the two basins (?) Of the Great House" - Cherep-merui-per-wer - Ḫrp-mrwj-pr-wr
  • “Warehouse manager in the house of life” - Cheri-wedja-hut- ankh - Ḫri-wḏ3-ḥwt-ˁnḫ

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His decorated mastaba was probably in northern Saqqara , where two blocks were built in the modern village of Abusir. Together with the mastabas of Metjen and Chabausokar, it is one of the earliest mastabas decorated with reliefs from ancient Egypt and is therefore of great importance in terms of art history. In the meantime, however, it has been lost.

literature

  • Günter Dreyer , Evamaria Engel, Vera Müller, Ulrich Hartung: Signs from the sand: Streiflichter from Egypt's history in honor of Günter Dreyer. (= Menes , Volume 5). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-447-05816-2 .
  • Wolfgang Helck : Investigations into the thinite age. (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , p. 244.
  • Raymond Weill: Les origines de l'Égypte pharaonique. Première partie: La IIe et la IIIe dynasties. Paris 1908, pp. 26, 272, plate 7.
  • Jochem Kahl , Nicole Kloth, Ulrich Zimmermann: The inscriptions of the 3rd Dynasty, an inventory. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1995, ISBN 3-447-03733-4 , pp. 202-214.
  • Sabine Hänsch: Aaachti. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 1.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Helck: Investigations on the thinite age . P. 244.
  2. ^ Jochem Kahl, Nicole Kloth, Ursula Zimmermann: The inscriptions of the 3rd dynasty. Pp. 202-204.
  3. ↑ Inventory number of the Egyptian Museum Berlin : Berlin 14277
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Helck: The dating of the vessel inscriptions from the Djoser pyramid. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. (ZÄS) No. 106, 1979, p. 129.
  5. ↑ Günter Dreyer u. a .: Signs from the sand. P. 319.
  6. ↑ C. Ziegler: Relief Block with the Figure of Aa-akhti. In: Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1999, ISBN 0-87099-906-0 , pp. 189-190.
personal data
SURNAME Akhtiaa
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aa-Achti; Achti-aa; Aaachti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian official
DATE OF BIRTH 28th century BC BC or 27th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.