Antef II.

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Name of Antef II.
Horus name
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Wah-
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With constant life
Proper name
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Initef / Antef
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brings his father with him

Antef II. , Also Anjotef , Initef or Intef , is the proper name of the 2nd ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 11th dynasty ( Middle Kingdom ), who lived from around 2121 to 2072 BC. Ruled in Upper Egypt .

family

For the background to the developed genealogical information, see the section Documents in Mentuhotep I. about his statue from the sanctuary of Heqaib on Elephantine .

government

Funeral stele Antef II ( Metropolitan Museum (New York) )

Antef II ruled for almost 50 years. Almost constantly he was fighting with the kings of Lower Egypt. At the beginning of his reign he was ruler of the Upper Egyptian Gaue 1 to 6 and the city of Abydos . Twice he had to conquer Thinis until the capital of the 8th Upper Egyptian Gau finally belonged to his sphere of influence. He succeeded in extending his domain to Qaw el-Kebir , about 100 km north of Abydos.

buildings

An octagonal column found in the Karnak temple in Luxor with the name Antef Wah-anch and the god Amun-Re suggests that Antef II has already built a temple here. It is the earliest structural evidence in Karnak .

dig

He put his saff grave (row grave) in at tariff . It is the large grave known as Saff el-Kisasija .

Three of the Pharaoh's dogs on the grave stele

Two steles from his grave in at-Tarif / Korna come from Antef II. Wah- ankh . It is interesting that the papyrus Abbot II. 8, which was an inspection of the graves under Ramses IX. (late 20th Dynasty ) mentions the dog Behek on one of the steles. It was probably so buried that the remaining four dogs were not recognized.

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 978-0-9774094-4-0 , pp. 144-147.
  • Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , pp. 75-76.
  • Peter A. Clayton: The Pharaohs. Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1995, ISBN 3-8289-0661-3 , p. 72f.

About the name

  • Jacques Jean Clére, Jacques Vandier: Texts de la Iére Période Intermédiaire et de la XIde dynastie. Volume X, Bruxelles 1948, § 16-20, § 15-17, § 16-24.
  • Papyrus Abott column 2 / line 18.
  • Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , pp. 63, 193.

Questions of detail

  • Werner Kayser: City and Temple of Elephantine. Fifth excavation report (= communication from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Volume 31). 1975, p. 46.
  • Dieter Arnold : Graves of the Old and Middle Kingdom in El tariff. von Zabern, Mainz 1976, ISBN 3-8053-0046-8 , pp. 25-32, 50-57.
  • Dieter Arnold: The temple of King Mentuhotep from Deir el-Bahari. von Zabern, Mainz 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0316-5 , pp. 53f., 57-59, 62.
  • Gawdat Gabra: Preliminary Report on the Stela of Htpi from El-Kab from the time of Wakhankh Inyôtef II (= Communication from the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Department. (MDAIK) Volume 32). 1976, pp. 45-56.
  • Farouk Gomaá: Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. Wiesbaden 1980, pp. 148-152.
  • Labib Habachi : Elephantine IV. The Sanctuary of Hequaib (= Archaeological Publications. (AV) Volume 33). Mainz 1985, p. 110f. (Nos. 98,99) and pls. Pp. 189-192.
  • Elke Blumenthal : The God Fathers of the Old and Middle Kingdom. (= Journal for Egyptian Language and Archeology. (ZÄS) Volume 114). 1987, pp. 16-19.
  • Louise Gerstermann: Continuity and change in politics and administration of the early Middle Kingdom in Egypt. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02728-2 , p. 22f.
  • Detlef Franke : On the chronology of the Middle Kingdom (= Orientalia. Volume 57). 1988.
  • Francoise Le Saout, Abd el-Hamid Ma´Arouf, Thierry Zimmer: Le Moyen Empire á Karnak: varia I. In: Center franco-égyptien d'étude des temples de Karnak: Cahiers de Karnak VIII, 1982-1985. Éditions Recherche sur les Civilizations, Paris 1987, ISBN 2-86538-172-2 , pp. 294-297.
  • Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th Dynasty (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7

Web links

Commons : Antef II.  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annual figures based on Wolfgang Helck
  2. ↑ a b Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, p. 185
  3. ↑ recorded as mother Antef III .; Furthermore: Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, pp. 187f
predecessor Office successor
Antef I. King of Upper Egypt
11th Dynasty 		Antef III.
personal data
SURNAME Antef II.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wah-ankh; Anjotef; Intef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian king of the 11th dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH before 2121 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH around 2072 BC Chr.