Imhotep (Pharaoh)

Name of Imhotep
Proper name	Imhotep (Ii em hotep) Jj m ḥtp Who comes in peace

Imhotep is an ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 8th Dynasty ( First Intermediate Period ).

This ruler is named on the rock inscription of a 2,500-strong expedition in Wadi Hammamat led by the eldest king's son and General Djati / Kaibefer under his rule . Possibly he is to be equated with a king's son Imhotep as the leader of another expedition to Wadi Hammamat. However, he would have carried out this before his reign as king.

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 , p. 133.
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 137.

About the name

• Jules Couyat / Piere Montet: Les inscriptions hiéroglyphiques et hiératiques du Ouâdi Hammâmât. 1912, no.206.
• Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of the Egyptian king names. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1984, ISBN 3-422-00832-2 , pp. 60, 188.

Questions of detail

• Wolfgang Schenkel: Memphis-Herakleopolis-Thebes. 1965, p. 27f.
• Farouk Gomaà: 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 , p. 126
• Jürgen von Beckerath: Chronology of the pharaonic Egypt. von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-2310-7 , p. 151.
• Hratch Papazian : The State of Egypt in the Eighth Dynasty. In: Peter Der Manuelian , Thomas Schneider (Eds.): Towards a New History for the Egyptian Old Kingdom. Perspectives on the Pyramid Age (= Harvard Egyptological Studies. Volume 1). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2015, ISBN 978-90-04-30188-7 , pp. 393-428.

predecessor	Office	successor
unsure	Pharaoh of Egypt 8th Dynasty	unsure