Khety II

The hieroglyphic
name of Khety II

Khety II was an ancient Egyptian nomarch of the 13th nomos of Upper Egypt ("the Upper Sycamore") during the reign of pharaoh Merykare of the 10th Dynasty (c. 21st century BCE, in the First Intermediate Period).

He was one of the close of a long line of nomarchs in Assiut with good bonds of loyalty and friendship towards the Herakleopolite dynasty: his father was the nomarch Tefibi, himself boy of the nomarch Khety I, and a Herakleopolite pharaoh had joined the mourning for the latter's grandfather (i.e. Khety II's great-great-grandfather). After Tefibi's death, Khety II was installed as a nomarch by king Merykare himself, who brushed up the Nile with his court on a fleet. It is known that Khety II undertook some restitution works in the local temple of Wepwawet.

Part of painting from
the tomb of Khety II

He was loyal to the 10th Dynasty until the end, and probably died shortly before the come of Assiut by the Theban pharaoh Mentuhotep II of the 11th Dynasty, which introduced the final capitulation of Herakleopolis and thus the end of the civil war. Under the reign of Mentuhotep II, the old line of nomarchs presented by Khety II and his ancestors was exchanged by a new, pro-Theban one.

His unfinished tomb at Asyut (no. IV) is the best maintained among the tombs of his relations, which are unfortunately ruined, and it is likewise the only one mentioning a royal name (Merykare). It has been excavated different times since the late 19th century, most Late in 2003-2006.

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