Itika (civil servant)

Itika in hieroglyphics
Surname	Itika (It ka) Jtj k3
1st title	Semer-per-nesu Smr-pr-nsw friend of the royal family
2nd title	Wedpu Wdpw attendant, cellar master, taster, truchess , cupbearer

Itika (also Iti-ka ) is the name of a high ancient Egyptian official of the 1st Dynasty , who served under the kings ( pharaohs ) Semerchet and Qaa .

supporting documents

Itikas name appears on his grave stele of limestone along with the titles "Semer-per-nesu" and "Wedpu". Its base has broken off and the stele is 20 cm high and 24.50 cm wide in its current condition. It is located in the British Museum under inventory number 35019 .

dig

Itika was buried in a side grave of the royal necropolis Tomb U (Semerchet) or Tomb Q (Qaa) at Abydos . Until the beginning of the 2nd dynasty , it was an ancient Egyptian tradition that some members of the royal family had to follow the ruler to their death.

See also

• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles

literature

• William Matthew Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the first dynasty: 1900. Part I (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 18). Egypt Exploration Fund ua, London 1900, ( digitization ), plate 31, object 40.
• AJ Spencer: Early Dynastic Objects . In: Catalog of egyptian antiquities in the British Museum . Volume 5, British Museum Publications, London 1980, p. 16.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See also for the uncertain translation Dilwyn Jones: An Index of ancient Egyptian titles, epithets and phrases of the Old Kingdom . Archaeopress, Oxford 2000, ISBN 1-8417-1069-5 , p. 406, Volume 1, No. 1495: cupbearer, steward