Medu-jau

Medu-jau and Iun-jau in hieroglyphics
Medu-jau Mdw-j3w Staff of the Age / Staff of the Old

Medu-jau ("stick of old age") was the ancient Egyptian name of an assistant or intended successor to an official.

The term appears in the doctrine of Ptahhotep , where the old official asks the king ( Pharaoh ) for a staff of old age and specifically wants his son in this function, who should be the successor of the vizier Ptahhotep . In a Lahun papyri , a successor to the priesthood is expressly referred to as the “staff of old age”.

See also

• Iunmutef
• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles

literature

• Hellmut Brunner : Medu-Jahu In: Wolfgang Helck : Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 5: Building a pyramid. Stone vessels . Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1984, ISBN 3-447-02489-5 , p. 1224.
• Francis Llewellyn Griffith : The Petrie Papyri: Hieratic Papyri from Kahun and Gurob (principally of the middle kingdom). Quaritch, London 1989 (reprint 1898 edition), p. 30.