Antef I.

Name of Antef I.
Horus name	Se-her-taui S-hr-t3.w (j) Who satisfies the two countries (pacifies)
Proper name	Initef / Antef Jnj (j) t. = F Who brings his father with him

Antef I , also Anjotef I or Intef I , was an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 11th Dynasty ( Middle Kingdom ), who lived from about 2133 to 2121 BC. Ruled in Upper Egypt .

origin

This ruler was possibly a son of Mentuhotep I and brother of Antef II.

Domination

Initially only the Theban prince, Antef extended his domain to several neighboring districts and later assumed the title of king, albeit without the throne name . The northern limit of his territory was probably Dendera , the sixth Upper Egyptian Gau .

His grave

In 1966 Dieter Arnold and Jürgen Settgast excavated the grave of Antef ( Jnj-jtj.f ) TT386 on behalf of the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo .

This is the large grave known as Saff el-Dawaba .

In the museum in Cairo there is a grave stele of a guest prince and overseer of the priests named Antef, which dates back to around 2115 BC. Dated. It comes from Dra Abu el-Naga and is often assigned to the 9th dynasty , because this antef was still tributary to the kings of Herakleopolis .

literature

General

• 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. 143-144.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 75.

About the name

• Jacques Jean Clère, Jacques Vandier : Textes de la première période intermédiaire et de la XIème dynastie (= Bibliotheca Aegyptiaca 10, ZDB -ID 18929-7 ). Fasc. 1. Édition de la Fondation égyptologique reine Élisabeth, Brussels 1948.
• Henry George Fischer : Dendera in the Third Millennium BC down to the Theban domination of upper Egypt. Augustin, Locust Valley NY 1968, p. 129, plate 29.
• Jacques Vandier : Un nouvel Antef de la XIe dynastie. In: Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 36, 1936/1937, pp. 101–116, here p. 103, online .

Questions of detail

• Brigitte Jaroš-Deckert : The grave of Jnj-jtj.f. The wall paintings of the XI. Dynasty (= excavation in Asasif vol. 5 = archaeological publications vol. 12). von Zabern, Mainz 1984, ISBN 3-8053-0041-7 .
• Jacques Vandier: Une inscription historique de la première période intermédiaire. In: HB Rosén (Ed.): Studies in Egyptology and Linguistics. In Honor of HJ Polotsky. The Israel Exploration Society, Jerusalem 1964, pp. 9-16.
• Dieter Arnold : Graves of the Old and Middle Kingdom in El tariff (= Archaeological Publications Vol. 17). von Zabern, Mainz 1976, ISBN 3-8053-0046-8 , pp. 10-22, 45-49, 50.
• Farouk Gomaá: Egypt during the First Intermediate Period (= supplements to the Tübingen Atlas of the Middle East, Series B: Geisteswissenschaften, Vol. 27). Reichert, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-88226-041-6 , pp. 141-144, 146-148.
• Louise Gestermann: Continuity and change in politics and administration of the early Middle Kingdom in Egypt (= Göttingen Orient Research Series 4: Egypt Vol. 18). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02728-2 , pp. 22-23, 25-26.
• Elke Blumenthal : The "God Fathers" of the Old and Middle Kingdom. In: Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 114, 1987, pp. 10–35, here pp. 18–19.
• Detlef Franke : On the chronology of the Middle Kingdom (12th-18th dynasty). I. In: Orientalia, New Series. Volume 57, 1988, pp. 113-138, here p. 134.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , pp. 25, 138-142, 144-145, 188.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Annual figures based on Wolfgang Helck .
2. ↑ Dieter Arnold : The grave of Jnj-jtj.f. Die Architektur (= excavation in Asasif. Vol. 2 = Archaeological publications. (AV) Vol. 4, ISSN  2190-5843 ). von Zabern, Mainz 1971.
3. ^ Lexicon of Egyptology edited by Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto. Volume 5, p. 237 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Mentuhotep I.	King of Upper Egypt 11th Dynasty	Antef II.