Anchka

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Anchka in hieroglyphics
Surname
S34 D28

Anchka
(Anch ka)
ˁnḫ k3
alive at Ka
1st title

K3
N36
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Adj-mer-Hor-sixenti-dju
ˁḏ-mr-Ḥr. (W) -s.ḫnt.j-ḏw
administrator of the domain
" Horus towers over the mountains"

Anchka , also Ankh-ka , was a high ancient Egyptian dignitary who held office mainly under King Den in the 1st Dynasty .

supporting documents

Anchka is mainly known for unrolling seals , which pass on his numerous titles. One of them shows one of the earliest documents for the title Hatia (Eng. " Gaufürst ", " Gouverneur " or " Mayor "). On another seal he appears as the “head of the facility 'Hor-sixenti-dju”. Many seals were found in the tomb of Meritneith , suggesting that he began his career under this ruler.

Anchka is also depicted on a rock relief on the Sinai behind King Den. Here he bears the title Siegler .

Grave complex

The mastaba S3036 is tentatively attributed to him. It is located in Saqqara and was excavated by Walter Bryan Emery in 1936 .

See also

literature

  • Walter Bryan Emery: Excavations at Sakkara: great tombs of the first dynasty. 3rd Volume, Egypt Exploration Society, London 1954, pp. 82-94.
  • Walter Bryan Emery in: Annales du service des antiquités de lÉgypte - Súppleménts. 38th edition, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale (IFAO), Cairo 1938, pp. 455–459.
  • Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , pp. 188 & 189.
  • Wolfgang Helck: Economic history of ancient Egypt in the 3rd and 2nd millennium BC BRILL, Leiden 1975, ISBN 90-04-04269-5 , p. 26.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ WM Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part II (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 21). Egypt Exploration Fund et al., London 1901 ( digitization ), Plate XIX, 153.
  2. Pierre Tallet: Zone Miniere Pharaonique du Sud Sinai, I, Catalog complémentaire des inscriptions du Sinaï , Cairo 2012, ISBN 978-2-7247-0629-1 , p. 17