Khnumhotep (vizier)

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Khnumhotep in hieroglyphics
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Khnumhotep
(
Khnum- hotep) H̱nmw-ḥtp
Chnum is satisfied

Khnumhotep was an ancient Egyptian vizier who under Sesostris III. and maybe even under Amenemhet III. officiated.

Career

Chnumhotep was the son of the mayor of Menat-Chufu , Chnumhotep II , who is best known from his grave in Beni Hassan . He is named in his father's biography and it is described that he became a single friend with the title Gate of Foreigners . So Chnumhotep was sent to the royal residence at a young age, where he made a career especially in the field of expeditionary affairs. He also appears in a scene in his father's grave receiving a group of Asians.

On a stele that was found in Wadi Gasus on the Red Sea and dated to the first year of Sesostris II , he appears with the title of an expedition leader ( Gottessiegler ) and reports there about the erection of a monument in God's land . His official title there is head of cabinet (jmj-r ˁẖnwti).

Arrival of Asians at Khnumhotep II.

His grave

His grave was found in Dahshur in 1894 . It was a massive building that was decorated on the outside with a palace facade . In front of the mastaba there was once an obelisk with at least six text columns on each side. On the facade of the mastaba there were remains of a badly damaged biography. Subsequent excavations in 2001 under Dieter Arnold yielded further fragments of the biography which show that Chnumhotep or his subordinates were in Byblos and especially in Ullaza (a town about 50 km north of Byblos). In the mastaba , Khnumhotep has the official title of senior asset manager and that of vizier . So he reached these positions at the end of his career . The remains of his body found in the burial chamber show that he died at the age of around 65.

literature

  • James P. Allen: The Historical Inscription of Khnumhotep at Dahshur: Preliminary Report. In: Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. Volume 352, November 2008, pp. 29-39.
  • Jacques de Morgan : Fouilles a Dahchour, Mars-Juin 1894 . Vienna 1895, pp. 18-23.
  • Detlef Franke : The career of Khnumhotep III of Beni Hasan and the so-called “Decline of the Nomarch”. In: Stephen Quirke: Middle Kingdom Studies. SIA Publishing, New Malden 1991, ISBN 1-872561-02-0 , pp. 51-67.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ D. Franke, in: Middle Kingdom Studies. Whitstable 1991, p. 57.
  2. ^ D. Franke, in: Middle Kingdom Studies. Whitstable 1991, pp. 59-60, Figure 1B.
  3. ↑ James P. Allen, in Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research. Volume 352, November 2008, pp. 20-21.
  4. ^ J. de Morgan: Fouilles a Dahchour, Mars-Juin 1894. Vienna 1895, Figures 24-26.
personal data
SURNAME Khnumhotep
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient Egyptian vizier
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 19th century BC BC or 18th century BC Chr.