Iniothef the Elder (= Intef-Aa ), son of Iku ( Egypt. Jnj-jtj.f ) - Theban nomarch during the First Transition Period c. 2150 BC e., later became the founder of the XI dynasty , in which there was a unification of Egypt [1] .
| Iniothef the Elder | |
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 The alleged funeral stela of Iniothef the Elder | |
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| Death | or |
| Burial place | probably in Dra Abu al-Naga |
| Kind | XI dynasty |
| Father | Iku |
| Religion | Ancient egyptian religion |
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Iniothef the Elder was not so much a pharaoh as a nomarch of Thebes in approx. 2150 BC e. under the ruler of the VIII dynasty [2] or Heracles of Pharaoh IX or X dynasty [1] . Iniothef the Elder controlled the territory from Thebes to Aswan in the south and not further north, to Koptos , which was then under the rule of another dynasty of nomarchs [1] . Iniothef was the father of his successor on the Theban throne - Mentuhotep I.
Personality
After death, Iniothef the Elder became considered the founder of the XI dynasty. For example, his name appears in the Karnak royal list under No. 13, presented in Karnak during the reign of Pharaoh Thutmose III 600 years after the death of Iniothef [1] . In the list of Iniothef is named iry-pat ("hereditary prince") and haty-a ("noble") [1] . Iniothef the Elder can probably be identified with “Intef-Aa, son of Iku”, to whom Senusert I dedicated a statue in the form of a scribe [1] :
A monument was made by the pharaoh of Upper and Lower Egypt Hepercar for his father, Prince Iniothef the Elder [...], the son of Iku.
According to the stele of the court Maati (now found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art ) under Mentuhotep II , Iniothef the Elder was also a cult object [4] . On the stele, Maati says to offer prayers to "Iniothef the Elder, the son of Ikus." Iniothef as the “Grand Prince of the Southern Lands” is mentioned on the Dendera stela, two fragments of which are stored in Strasbourg (No. 345) and Florence (No. 7595) [5] [6] . The relation of this stele to Iniotheph is debatable [1] .
Given the importance of Iniothef the Elder in the eyes of his successors, Alan Gardiner suggested that Iniotef the Elder is mentioned in the royal papyrus of Turin in column 5, on line 12. The hypothesis remains unproven, since this part of the papyrus has been lost [1] .
Tomb
Auguste Mariette unearthed the stela of the “Crown Prince Iniothef” in Dra Abu al-Naga on the West coast of Thebes (exhibited in the Cairo Egyptian Museum CG 20009). The stele lists the names of Iniothef and shows that he ruled as an unnamed pharaoh [1] [2] [7] .
Jürgen von Beckeratt believes that she was the funeral stele of Iniothef and originally stood in a chapel near his tomb [2] .
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| Iniothef the Elder | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mentuhotep I | Neferu I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iniothef I | Iniothef II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Iniothef III | Yah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| By | Mentuhotep II | Neferu II | Ashauet | Hanhenet | Cahuit | Kemsit | Sadeh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mentuhotep III | (?) They | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mentuhotep IV | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Darrell D. Baker. The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs. - Stacey International, 2008. - T. I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300-1069 BC. - S. 141-142. - ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9 .
- ↑ 1 2 3 Jürgen von Beckerath. Antef / Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf. - Lexikon der Ägyptologie. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975 .-- T. I. - ISBN 3-447-01670-1 .
- ↑ Georges Legrain : Statues et statuettes de rois et de particuliers , in the Catalog général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire , Le Caire, 1906. I, available copyright-free online Archived September 23, 2015 at Wayback Machine , pp. 4-5; pl. III CG 42005.
- ↑ Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati | First Intermediate Period . The met . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, i.e. The Met Museum. Date of treatment November 24, 2018.
- ↑ Fischer, Henry G. Varia nova. - New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. - S. 83–88.
- ↑ Roccati, Alessandro. Una stela di Firenze recentemente ricomposta // Atti del V Convegno Nazionale di Egittologia e Papirologia. - Firenze, 1999 .-- December 10. - S. 213–215 .
- ↑ Flinders Petrie. A History of Egypt . - 1897. - T. 1 - From the Earliest Times to the XVIth Dynasty. - S. 126.
Literature
- Jürgen von Beckerath. Antef / Wolfgang Helck, Eberhard Otto, Wolfhart Westendorf. - Lexikon der Ägyptologie. - Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1975 .-- T. I. - St. 300 - ISBN 3-447-01670-1 .
- Morenz, Ludwig D. Lesbarkeit der Macht. Die Stele des Antef (Kairo, CG 20009) als Monument eines frühthebanischen lokalen Herrschers // Aula Orientalis. - 2003. - No. 21 . - S. 229–242 .