Heqaib

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Heqaib (proper Heqa-ib ; to German “He who rules the heart” or “[My] heart is [my] ruler”) was the nickname of the ancient Egyptian official Pepinacht (to German “(King) Pepi is strong “), Which worked in the 6th Dynasty of the Old Kingdom .

Office and career

Pepinacht was the expedition leader and governor of Elephantine . According to his autobiographical grave inscriptions, he led military expeditions to Nubia towards the end of the Old Kingdom , under King Pepi II . His grave is unnumbered in the rock tomb necropolis on the Qubbet el-Hawa north across from Elephantine. Various wooden boxes were found in an administrative building on Elephantine, one of them with the name of Heqaib. Such chests played a role in the death cult of a deceased. Other boxes from other local officials were also found there.

Posthumous honors

After his death, Heqaib was venerated as a deified ancestor and patron saint of the southern expeditions during the First Intermediate Period , until a sanctuary was built in his honor on the island of Elephantine in the 12th Dynasty under Sesostris I. The plant was Egyptian as a hat-ka (dt. " Ka -House") refers to the Noble Heqaib and at the beginning of the 12th dynasty initiative of the mayor / princes and priests chief of Elephantine, I. Sarenput built. Sarenput I commissioned after construction of the temple beside the shrine Heqaibs another shrine for his own statue erected, as well as many subsequent mayors and priests chief of Elephantine and even some rulers of the late 11th Dynasty .

literature

  • Labib Habachi : Heqaib. In: Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Volume 2: Harvest Festival - Hordjedef. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , Sp. 1120-1122.
  • Labib Habachi: The Sanctuary of Heqaib (= Elephantine 4 = Archaeological Publications. (AV). Vol. 33). 2 volumes. von Zabern, Mainz 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0496-X .
  • Detlef Franke : The sanctuary of the Heqaib on Elephantine. History of a provincial shrine in the Middle Kingdom (= Studies on the Archeology and History of Ancient Egypt. (SAGA). Vol. 9). Heidelberger Orientverlag, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-927552-17-8 (also: Heidelberg, Univ., Habil.-Schr., 1991).

Heqaib's inscriptions on his grave opposite Elephantine:

  • Kurt Sethe (ed.): Documents of the old empire (= documents of the Egyptian antiquity. German. Department 1). Volume 1, Issue 2. 2nd greatly improved and increased edition. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1933, pp. 131–135, online (PDF; (10.56 MB) .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andreas Dorn: Elephantine XXXI, boxes and shrines in the pageant, references to posthumous cults for high officials from a depot of cult and other objects from the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Chr. (Archaeological Publications 117), Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-447-10481-4 , pp. 166–175
personal data
SURNAME Heqaib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pepinecht from Elephantine; Pepinacht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Head of military expeditions and governor of ancient Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.