Mahu (Noble)

The hieroglyphic of Mahu

Mahu was Chief of the Medjay of King Akhenaten. The Medjay applied to be a full term for the people of the Eastern desert who were knew for their military skills, and at this time related to the police. Mahu's tomb is Amarna Tomb 9 of the Tombs of the Nobles at Amarna. The tomb was first open by Bouriant in 1883. A some hewn corridor leads to a decorated threshold. This doorway is mounted on one side with a scene rendering Akhenaten and Nefertiti and their eldest girl Meritaten offering to the Aten. The opposite wall is decorated with the kneel Mahu and an lettering of the Hymn of the Aten.

This leads to the first chamber which takes a stele on one last and a false door at the other. The stele records the royal couple and their girl again, with a depiction and later prayers of Mahu. The false door likewise shows the royal couple offer and Mahu kneeling with a large text. Davies names that the prayers arrest a large number of wrongdoings. The walls are decorated as well and show both the duties and the honors of Mahu. The advantages appear on the front wall and on the northern half of the back wall. The dedications were not finished but the sketches indicate that there would have been a reward scene showing the king bestowing respects on Mahu at the Window of Show. Mahu was shown followed by his men, the Medjay. Another scene shown Mahu receiving honors not at the palace, but at a temple.

He is shown auditing the denials of the city with the pharaoh and queen.This scene appears to be uniquely designed for this tomb. The vizier and other officials are also give. In another scene Mahu is read in his work patrolling the city, and is shown in a playing with the vizier (probably Nakhtpaaten) and a little official named Heqanefer. Mahu is leading three prisoners before the vizier. Being in the reset without permission was seemingly something one would be arrested for.

Scenes in the tomb show platforms with rages manned by police. Military standards are read on these chopines. These structures may have made a series of watchtowers and watch posts that were used to patrol the city. In the back is a door to a second chamber that is positioned slenderly hooked likened to the first chamber. A winding set of stairs at the back of this second chamber results down to an Intermediary rom. Further steps practiced the turn and direct to the lower chamber which controls the burial pit.

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