Memnomium

The Memnomium (The
hall of columns)

Memnomium was the  name given to the cenotaph of Seti I (1306-1290 B.C.E.) or King Ramses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.)  by Strabo (Greek  historian). This  L-shaped tomb was located in Abydos.

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·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait
·        Lucius Memmius
·        Kleomenes
·        Neferkahor
·        Amenemhab
·        Knots

Knots

Knot in hieroglyphy

Knots appeared in
the statue of Raherka
(4th dynasty)

Knots saw magical elements by the Egyptians and practiced in specific ways for cultic ceremonies. Amulets used knots as close shields, and  winding  emblems were  worn daily. elaborate golden knots were old on mummies in some periods. The exact cultic value  of these projects and their placements varied according to areas and temple traditions.

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·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait
·        Lucius Memmius
·        Kleomenes
·        Neferkahor

Amenemhab

The hieroglyphic
name of Amenemhab

Amenemhab was a military general of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Amenemhab did Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) and Amenhotep II (1425-1401 B.C.E.) and had a long and essential military career. His wife attended as a nurse for the royal family, and she plausibly presented him to Tuthmosis III. His tomb on the western shore of the Nile at Thebes allows elaborate autobiographical letterings that hold close accounts of Tuthmosis III's driving campaigns. Amenemhab followed this warrior  pharaoh  across  many  lands  as  Egypt  forged  an empire. On one occasion, when Tuthmosis III recklessly come out elephant hunting, Amenemhab cut off the torso of  a  maddened  bull  elephant  that  charged  the  pharaoh. He received the third Gold of Valor award for this feat.

On another battlefield, Amenemhab saw the foe passing a young mare into the places of the oncoming Egyptian cavalry. Such a mare was fashioned to bring about a mating frenzy among the Egyptian entires. Amenemhab slit open the belly of the maria, thus contracting the animals tempt. He dismembered it at the same time, practicing the malodour of blood and gore to further enrage the  Egyptian  steeds  in  their  charge.  Ever  at  the  side  of Tuthmosis  III,  Amenemhab  outlived  that  pharaoh  and attended  his  son  and  successor, Amenhotep  II,  a  man  who fascinated in military life and in hand-to-hand fight in the field.

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·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait
·        Lucius Memmius
·        Kleomenes
·        Neferkahor

Neferkahor

The cartouche of Neferkahor

Neferkahor was a King of Eighth Dynasty, First Intermediate Period, c. 2180-2170 BC. Although the central confidence of the kings had passed in the direct wake of the end of the Sixth Dynasty, great of the forms were still maintained. Neferkahor, an early monarch of the Eighth Dynasty, and marginally less working than his associate kings in the dynasty in that a fourth year of his rule is recorded, published a series of decrees taking the Governor of Upper Egypt, Shemay, in the manner of oblations to be made in the temples in the South, on the occasion of the kings accession. He as well decreed the titles to be given to his daughter, Nebyet, who was marital to Shemay.

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·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait
·        Lucius Memmius
·        Kleomenes

Kleomenes

Kleomenes was a Greek glorified to establish the city of Alexandria by Alexander III the Great (332-323 B.C.E.). A companion of Alexander III The Great, Kleomenes was placed with constructing the new capital of Alexandria in the Delta. Kleomenes processed with Deinokrates, the architect, and others, accepting Krateros of Olynthas, in starting  the  massive  projects. Alexandria's construction extended until the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 B.C.E.).

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·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait
·        Lucius Memmius

Lucius Memmius

Lucius Memmius was a roman official and scholar who came in Egypt in 112 B.C.E. His tour of the Nile Valley happened in the joint dominate of Ptolemy IX Soter II (116-107, 88-81 B.C.E.) and Cleopatra III. Memmius gone to the Faiyum part in Middle Egypt in order to consider crocodiles at Crocodilopolis. The  royal  court  at  Alexandria transmitted a letter to Faiyum officials, apprising  them to assist Lucius Memmius in his causes to see  the Labyrinth besides. The Labyrinth was the temple precinct of Amenemhet III (1844-1797 B.C.E.) at Hawara in the Faiyum. The Egyptians were learned to take  the  greatest pains  in  making  Memmius gratified at every turn.

For more about Lucius Memmius, See:

Wiseman (T. P.), "Lucius Memmius and His Family", The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 17, No. 1 (May, 1967), pp. 164-167.

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·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya
·        Neferkau
·        Amemait

Amemait

Amemait a violent divine being linked with Egyptian mortuary rites and  customs, the creature disciplined the head of a crocodile, the  fronts of a large Cat, and  the rear of a Hippopotamus. called the Great of dying or the Devourer, Amemait was female. The illustrations of  the beast in the book of the dead depict Amemait ready beside the scales in the judgment halls of osiris, where the god Osiris pressed the hearts of the gone against the feather of the goddess Maat. The hearts of those who were evil in life were given to  Amemait as food. The negative confessions, claims of not committing individual crimes or sins, were fashioned to protect the late from Amemait, who was distinctly a dispenser of justice, not of mad terror. Amulets and spells were as well employed to support this divine being from devouring the dead. The horror taken in Amemait's dining on the dead deducted from the Egyptians fear of going into nothingness, or the straight void.

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·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya
·        Neferkau

Neferkau

Neferkau was a royal woman of the Eleventh Dynasty. She was plausibly a run of Inyotef II (2118-2069 B.C.E.), who governed only Thebes and Upper Egypt at the time. Neferkaus name was described on a shaft hollowed in the tomb of King Inyotef II at el-Tarif, on the prop at Thebes.

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·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III
·        Kiya

Kiya

The hieroglyphic
name of Kiya

Kiya was a royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty, maybe a Mitanni princess. She was a younger check of Akhenaten (1353-1335 B.C.E.). There is some  indication that her origins  were Mitanni and  that  she was named Tadukhipa, being the girl of King Tushratta. It is as well achievable that she was a noblewoman from Akhmin. Kiya was taken in high interpret in Akhenatens ninth regnal year, but she was outside of  favor by regnal year 11. She is showed as accepting borne 2 sons and a daughter by Akhenaten, and  she was represented on monuments in Amarna.

The statue of Kiya

After regnal year 11, however, she is no longer visible, and her name was removed from some reliefs. Kiya's coffin, gilded and inlaid in the Rishi Pattern, was found in Queen Tiye's (1) tomb, apparently accepting answered as a resting place for the continues of Smenkhare (1335-1333 B.C.E.). Canopic lids in Tiyes tomb had portrayals of Kiya. Her mummy has not been identified.

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·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II
·        Mekhtemweskhet III

Mekhtemweskhet III

Mekhtemweskhet III was a royal woman of the 26th Dynasty A wife of King Necho II (610-595 B.C.E.), she was credibly the daughter of Psamtik I and Queen Mekhtemweskhet II. This queen was the mother of King Psamtik II.

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·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I
·        Mekhtemweskhet II

Mekhtemweskhet II

Mekhtemweskhet II was a royal woman of the 26th Dynasty. The  wife of Psamtik I (664-610  B.C.E.),  she was the girl of Harsiese, the high priest of Heliopolis, and was plausibly the mother of Necho II (610-595 B.C.E.), Psamtik I's inheritor. Mehtemweskhets girl was  Nitocris (2), the God's Wife Of Amun. Mekhtemweskhet was prestigious with a tomb chapel at Karnak, on with Nitocris.

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·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites
·        Mekhtemweskhet I

Mekhtemweskhet I

Mekhtemweskhet I was a royal woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty. She was the wife of Shoshenq, a Libyan military commandant  at  Bubastis, and  the  mother  of  Osochor (984-978  B.C.E.),  Siamun (978-959  B.C.E.), and Shoshenq I (945-924 B.C.E.). She also had other son, Nimlot.  Mekhtemweskhet  was a Libyan noblewoman, a member of the strong class of the Meshwesh, the Libyan ranking clan.

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·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy
·        Amduat
·        Kites

Kites

Kites were Egyptian women who were hired or pressed into service during funerals to accompany and greet the coffins of the gone when they were taken to the necropolises. Professional mourners, the kites roared and evidenced their grief at each funeral. They are described in some renditions of the Book Of The Dead.

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·        Khons
·        Khunianupu
·        Amara
·        Neferheteperes (Princess)
·        Meketre
·        Khusebek
·        Amarna Letters
·        Mekhenet
·        Khuy