Viceroy of Kush

The hieroglyphic name
of Viceroy of Kush

Setau and his wife depicting
in a stella in Louvre Museum

The Kingdom of Kush based in Lower Nubia was a responsibility of Ancient Egypt from the 16th century BCE to eleventh century BCE. During this period, the polity was ruled by a viceroy who reported direct to the Egyptian Pharaoh. It is thought that the Egyptian 25th Dynasty were posterities of these viceroys, and then were the dynasties that ruled independent Kush until the fourth century CE.

Keeper of the  Door to the Southern, this was the title given to the vicereines of Kush (Nubia, now contemporary Sudan). The governors of Aswan carried the same title. The  rulers  of  the 11th dynasty (2040-1991 B.C.E.) and the Seventeenth Dynasty (1640-1550  B.C.E.),  the lines of Inyotefs and the Taos at Thebes bad the same role in their own eras. Holding Upper Egypt as generation of the Delta or northern dynasties, these Thebans  found  as  far  south  as  the  best  cataract of the Nile or beyond.

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