Antefiqer

Antefiqer in hieroglyphics
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Antefiqer (also Antefoqer ) was an ancient Egyptian vizier who ruled under Amenemhet I and Sesostris I , rulers of the 12th Dynasty ( Middle Kingdom ), around 1950 BC. Officiated.

supporting documents

Painting from the Senet's tomb in Thebes

Antefiqer is one of the best attested officials in the Middle Kingdom . In El-Lisht he had in the pyramid of Amenemhet be Mastabagrab . The building was about 12 × 14 m in size. There was a forecourt and three cult chambers, the southern one had a false door on the west side. The walls were decorated with recessed relief. There were two grave shafts, but they were never examined.

In Thebes , the richly decorated place rock grave ( TT60 ) his mother Senet. Antefiqer appears in two rock inscriptions in Lower Nubia , according to which he was probably involved in a Nubian campaign especially at the end of the reign of Amenemhet I. An inscription from the Wadi el-Hudi is dated to a 20th year and tells of the bringing in of amethyst . Further inscriptions were found on a small stele west of Mersa Gawasis on the Red Sea . On the stele there are instructions from Sesostris I, according to which Antefiqer should build ships for the journey to Punt . The so-called Reisner papyri, which are administrative documents found in a grave near Naga-ed-Deir , are also particularly important . In these papyri, which deal with construction work at Thinis , copies of several letters from the vizier have been preserved.

See also

• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles

literature

• Norman de Garis Davies , Alan Gardiner : The Tomb of Antefoker vizier of Sesostris I, and of His Wife, Senet. London, 1920.
• Eberhard Otto : Antefoqer. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 302-303.
• Detlef Franke : Personal data from the Middle Kingdom (20th – 16th century BC). Dossiers 1–796 (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 41). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02484-4 .
• Dirk Bröckelmann: Two viziers named Antefoqer? Again on the owner question of the Theban grave no. 60. In: Dirk Bröckelmann, Andrea Klug (Ed.): Pharaos Staat. Festschrift for Rolf Gundlach on his 75th birthday. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-447-05498-0 , pp. 3-18.
• William Kelly Simpson: Rulers and Administrators - Dynasty 12: The Rule of the House of Itj-towy with Some Personal Reminiscenes. In: David P. Silverman, William Kelly Simpson, Josef Wegner (Eds.): Archaism and Innovation. Studies in the Culture of Middle Kingdom Egypt. Yale University - Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Civilizations, New Haven CT 2009, ISBN 978-0-9802065-1-7 , pp. 269-97.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dieter Arnold : Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht (= Publications of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Egyptian expedition 28). Metropolitan Museum of Art et al., New York NY et al. 2008, ISBN 978-1-58839-194-0 , pp. 69–71, plates 62–92 and 129–133.
2. ↑ N. de Garis Davies : The tomb of Antefoker, vizier of Sesostris I, and of his wife, Senet (no. 60) (= The Theban tombs Series 2, ZDB -ID 988098-7 ). Allen & Unwin, London 1920.
3. ↑ Zbynek Zaba: The Rock Inscriptions of Lower Nubia. (Czechoslovak concession) (= Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in Prague and in Cairo. Publications 1, ZDB -ID 447460-0 ). Charles University of Prague, Czechoslovak Institute of Egyptology in Prague and in Cairo, Prague 1974, p. 39 (no. 10), 99, (no. 73).
4. ↑ Ashraf I. Sadek: The Amethyst Mining Inscriptions. Volume 1: Text. Aris & Phillips, Warminster 1980, pp. 22-24 (no. 8).
5. ↑ Abdel Monem Sayed: Wadi Gasus. In: Kathryn A. Bard (ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London et al. 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , p. 867.