Amenemhet (vizier)

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Amenemhet was a vizier at the end of the ancient Egyptian 11th dynasty , who reigned under King ( Pharaoh ) Mentuhotep IV (approx. 2000 BC).


Amenemhet is known from four inscriptions that were found in Wadi Hammamat and tell of an expedition that had the goal of finding stones for the ruler's sarcophagus . Amenemhet is said to have been on the road with 10,000 men. One of the inscriptions tells of a miracle: a gazelle ran away from the people of the expedition and then lay down on a stone and had a cub there. The stone on which the gazelle gave birth turned out to be suitable for the lid of the sarcophagus. In gratitude for the gods, the gazelle was then sacrificed.

Amenemhet is probably also the later King Amenemhet I , but this assignment has not yet been proven.

See also

literature

  • James P. Allen: The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom. In: N. Strudwick, J. Taylor (Eds.): The Theban Necropolis: past, present, and future. British Museum Press, London 2003, ISBN 0-7141-2247-5 , pp. 22-23.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jules Couyat, Pierre Montet : Les inscriptions hieroglyphiques et hieratiques du Ouadi Hammamat (= Mémoires publiés par les membres de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire. Vol. 34). Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1912, No. 110, 113, 192, 205
personal data
SURNAME Amenemhet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian vizier
DATE OF BIRTH around 2000 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 20th century BC BC or 19th century BC Chr.