Amenemhet IV.

Name of Amenemhet IV.
Sphinx of Amenemhet IV .; British Museum , London
Horus name	Cheper-cheperu Ḫpr-ḫprw With designed appearances
Sideline	[Se] -hab-taui [S] -ḥ3b-t3wj Who makes the two countries festive
Gold name	Sechem-bik-nebu-netjeru Sḫm-bik-nbw-nṯrw Goldfalke (with) the strength of the gods
Throne name	Maa-cheru-Re M3ˁ-ḫrw-Rˁ Justified , a Re
Proper name	Amenemhet (Amen-em-hat) Jmn m ḥ3.t Amun is at the head
Royal Papyrus Turin (No. VI./1.)	Maa-cheru-Re M3ˁ-ḫrw-Rˁ Justified of the Re
Greek Manetho variants:	Africanus : Ammenemes Eusebius : missing Eusebius, AV : missing

Amenemhet IV (also Amenemhat ) was an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 12th Dynasty ( Middle Kingdom ), who ruled for about nine years (1819/1802 to 1810/1793 BC).

Origin and family

Amenemhet IV. Was the son and successor of Amenemhet III. His mother's name was Hetepti . Queen Nofrusobek was believed to be his sister wife.

Domination

He was probably co-regent of his father Amenemhet III for a short time. In the Turin Royal Papyrus the duration of his reign is given as nine years, three months and 27 days. The highest inscribed date with the ninth year of the reign was found on Sinai . A tenth year of reign after the Illahun papyrus is not assured. During his reign, Amenemhet IV undertook four expeditions to Sinai, as evidenced by construction work and inscriptions in Serabit el-Hadim . Another one can be found in the Wadi el-Hudi.

From the government years five to seven, three Nilstands brands from Kumma have survived. His successor is Nofrusobek, although a co-regency with her husband is not documented.

Construction activities

In his ten-year reign, Amenemhet IV. Some of the buildings of his father Amenemhet III. completed, including the temple of Medinet Madi . A pyramid could not be clearly assigned to him. However, some Egyptologists believe that the southern of the two pyramids of Masghuna was intended for him, as it is similar in its basic features to his father's pyramid in Hawara . In addition, he left the transverse space and portico of Amenemhet III. to decorate the temple for the deities Renenutet and Sobek in Medinet Madi.

See also

• List of Egyptian pyramids

literature

• Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs, Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, Oakville 2008, ISBN 978-0977409440 , pp. 30-32.
• Labib Habachi : New Light on Objects of Unknown Provenance (I): A Strange Monument of Amenemhet IV and a Similar Uninscribed One (= Göttinger Miszellen . (GM) Bd. 26). Göttingen 1977, pp. 27-36.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Deutscher Taschenbuch, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-423-03365-7 , pp. 352–353.
• Thomas Schneider: The Relative Chronology of the Middle Kingdom and the Hyksos Period (Dyns. 12-17). In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 168-196 ( online ).

Web links

Commons : Amenemhet IV.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alan H. Gardiner : The Royal Canon of Turin. Griffith Institute, Oxford 1997, ISBN 0-900416-48-3 , illustration 3.
2. ^ T. Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Munich 1996, p. 56.

predecessor	Office	successor
Amenemhet III.	King of Egypt 12th Dynasty	Nofrusobek