Khay

The hieroglyphic
name of Khay

Khay was Vizier, in the latter part of the rule of Ramesses II, during the 19th dynasty. A family stela from Abydos names that Khay was the boy of Hai and Nub-em-niut. Khay's father was supposed to be greatly idolized by the Lord of the Two Lands and a Troop Commander of the goodly god. Khay's mother Nub-em-niut was a chantress of Amun and Lady of the House. Khay's wife is mentioned Yam.

The statue of Khay (Cairo)

Khay grew up as the son of the Troop Commander Hai. A stela from Abydos records that Khay started his career as the First Royal Herald of the Lord of the Two Lands. He was hot with reporting the affairs of Egypt. In year 26 of Ramesses II, Khay was established Vizier. He may have followed Paser in office. After year 40, Khay was in charge of heralding the sed jubilees held by Ramesses II. In West Silsila a stela pronounces that "The Lord of Both Lands, Usermaatre Setepenre, Lord of Crowns, Ramesses II, presented life like Re forever. His Majesty set that the Hereditary Noble and Count, God's Father beloved of the God, Guardian of Nekhen, Prophet of Maat, Judge and Dignitary, City-governor and Vizier, Khay, excused, be pointed to glorify the Jubilee fete in the entire land, passim the South and the North." The previous sed festivals had been declared by the King's Son Khaemwaset and Khay both.

Khay was buried in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, where a muck brick pyramid belonging the tomb complex was found by the mission of Universit libre de Bruxelles in 2013. The pyramid would have stood about 15 metres (49 ft) full and was approximately 12 metres (39 ft) wide. The pyramid was crowned with a pyramidion showing Khay before the god Ra-Harakhty.

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·        Kharga Oasis
·        Horizon (akhet)
·        Necho II (610-595 BC)
·        Kheneres
·        Akhethotep

Akhethotep

The hieroglyphic
name of Akhethotep

Akhethotep the formal of the Fifth Dynasty and the boy of the vizier Ptah-hotep Akhethotep attended Niuserre (2416-2392 B.C.E.) as Vizer, a position likewise held by his father before him. He also served as a judge and as an superintendent of priests took in the mortuary rituals taken at the pyramids of passed  pharaohs.  His  grandson, Ptah-Hotep (2), the important sage famous for his Maxims, was buried in an alcove of Akhethoteps tomb. Elaborate paintings testify to the riches and prestige of this named family. Akhethotep's tomb was saw  in Saqqara, close modern Cairo.

Tomb of Akhethetep:

Akhethotep, from the
mastaba of Akhethotep

The Tomb of Akhethetep, or the Mastaba of Akhethotep, is a tomb complex that was built and good at unique times in Saqqara, Giza, Egypt. It is the grave of Akhethotep, a royal official, situated near the western break of the Step Pyramid in Saqqara. Akhethotep and his son Ptahhotep Tshefi, grandson of Ptahhotep, were superior court officials during the patterns of King Djedkare (2414-2375 BC) and King Unas (Weinis), towards the end of the 5th dynasty (2494 to 2345 BC).

The tomb of Akhethetep

The tomb was described in 1903 by Georges Aaron Bndite and two female workfellow, Miss Petrie and Miss Murray. Akhethotep was a high dignitary of Ancient Egypt who gone during the Fifth Dynasty around 2400 BC and placed its expression initially. He was a son of Peseshet. Bndite excavated the tomb and assembled it in the Louvre in Paris. One of the portraying on the wall of the tomb was Akhethotep training the building of the tomb.

A sketch plan dated 1940 developed by Abd El Salam Mohammed Hussein, designer of the Department of Antiquities, placed on his explorations about the causeway of King Unis, indicates a group of tombs located about 190220 metres (620720 ft) off from the pyramid of Unis, which among others accepted the tomb of Akhethotep. The tombs were found in a depression about 10 metres (33 ft) below a wall that retained the causeway.

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·        Medamud
·        Kharga Oasis
·        Horizon (akhet)
·        Necho II (610-595 BC)
·        Kheneres

Kheneres

The statue of Kheneres

 Kheneres was the net ruler of the Second Dynasty, the actual unifier of Egypt He dominated c. 2640 and was addressed Kheneres by Manetho, the Ptolemaic historian. Khasekhemwy is accredited with the actual completion of Egypts merger, changing his name from Khasekhem to Khasekhemwy as a result. His name after the unification meant the Two Kingdoms Are at Peace in Him.

The task was not an open one, and his three-decennary rule was  turbulent. He might not have been the direct heir to Peribsen. The names of the kings Sendji, Neterka, and Neferkara seem as  interlopers in some king lists, or they may have been the rebels close by Khasekhemwy.  He  is  showed  as  campaigning  in Dendereh, Minya, Elkab, the Faiyum, and in some northern regions that risen  against his rule. The bases of  his statuary  announced  that 47,209 rebels died in battle. Another rock vase records: Year of Fighting the Northern foe.

Khasekhemwys consort was Nimaathap (Hapnimaat or Nemaathop), and she was indicated as King bearer, being the mother belike of Nebka and Djoser. His mortuary complex at Abydos is named Shunet el-Zabib, the Storehouse of Dates. A rectangular mud-brick structure closed by thick walls, the tomb was raised with paneled  walls.  His  second  tomb  in  Hierakonpolis was actually a fortress that was gave. The Abydos site has  a  central  corridor  first  onto 33 magazines on either incline of a burial chamber of limestone. Vast amounts of tools, vessels, beads, sealings, and gold were learned there. A scepter of gold and sard was likewise saw there.

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·        Medamud
·        Kharga Oasis
·        Horizon (akhet)
·        Necho II (610-595 BC)

Necho II (610-595 BC)

Bronze statue
of Necho II

Necho II (610-595 BC) was the son and successor of Psammetichus I, Necho II is not well presented by the monuments; in Egypt his significant chronicler is the Greek writer Herodotus. It is recorded that he was responsible for digging a canal to re-got a waterway between the Nile and the Red Sea, which had the effect of maximizing trade and commerce. He likewise provided Egypt with a fleet of triremes and placed his Phoenician sailors some Africa on a voyage that gone for three years, going from the Red Sea about the Cape and then establishing by Gibraltar.

Small part of vessel
whowing the name of
Necho II

His foreign policy took him into the centre of world events. The Assyrian empire had fallen to the Medes and the Babylonians and Necho II now got the main adversary of the Babylonian kings. Like many of his precursors, Necho II interferred in the politics of Syria/Palestine. He advertised against Josiah, king of Judah, who tried to forbid him from passing the walls of Megiddo, and when Josiah was killed, Necho II set up a compliant swayer in Judah. His ambition for global influence was passing, for within a few years, Nebuchadrezzar (son of the Babylonian king, Nabopolassar) overcome him in a extended battle at Carchemish in 605 BC. In 601 BC, Nebuchadrezzar (who was now king of Babylon) processed against Egypt, but suffered extended losses and was affected to return home. Despite  his  attempted  forays  into  established  politics,  Necho  II  was  an internationalist, whose interests in both foreign and home spheres went beyond Egypt itself.

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·        Medamud
·        Kharga Oasis
·        Horizon (akhet)

Horizon (akhet)

The hieroglyphic
name of Akhet

Horizon is a spiritual symbol, the akhet was a metaphysical  term  used  to  describe  shrines  and  other  religious objects.  The  horizon  was  the  universe,  both  in  the  past and in the face. Temples and shrines were took the  actual  land  of  glory  in  which  the  gods  occupied through time. The actual games of land upon which temples stood were addressed the primeval mounds of creation. The akhet symbol described two mounds side by face with a space in which the sun seemed at dawn.

The Aker lions defended the horizon, which was addressed the home of Horus. The pylons and gates of temples multiplied the image of the two mounds face by face, framing the light, thus serving as true images of the horizon. The window of visual aspect used  in  temples and capital cities by the royal families was associated with the horizon.

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·        Medamud
·        Kharga Oasis

Kharga Oasis

Kharga Location

Kharga Oasis is a miniature jewel in the libyan desert, called Uakt-rest, the Outer or Southern Oasis, Kharga was as well  part  of  the  Oases Route. placed  some  77  miles southwest of Assiut, Kharga controls temples and towns, accepting Hibis. A temple to Amun was showed there in the reign of Darius I (521-486 B.C.E.) and refurbished in later periods. This temple had an close sacred lake and an boulevard of sphinxes. Other temples were developed in honor  of  Isis,  Mut,  Khons (2), and  Serapis. Kharga,  the largest of the oases, was a essential trade outpost. With the other havens it served as an agricultural resource, a haven for  runaways,  and  in  some  historical  periods,  a  place  of exile for mortals banned by the pharaoh.

The Christian cemetery at El Bagawat

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·        Medamud

Medamud

The temple of God Montu in Medamud

Montu was a falcon-headed deity whose roots date back to the Old Kingdom. During Dynasty XI the god achieved the status of patron of the Theban kings and went associated with war. individual temples to the north and south of Thebes were gave to Montu during the Middle Kingdom and supplied to by pharaohs of later dynasties.

The temple of Medamud is very close to Luxor, about 8 kilometres to the north and was once linked to the Temple of Montu at Karnak by a canal. The site of the show temple is knew to have been layered on remains from the Middle Kingdom or perchance earlier, by kings of the Graeco-Roman Period. The later buildings were sacred to Montu, Rattawy and Harpocrates.

The entrance to the temple has an unusual triple portal with kiosks constructed by Ptolemy VIII Euergetes II. In the southeastern kiosk the screen walls were decorated with reliefs of singers and musicians, and the god, Bes, dancing.

Behind the kiosks, a large forecourt with an altar was decorated by Antonius Pius and its little columns are the most essential remains of the monument.

In the essential part of the temple the hypostyle hall is now a bankrupt, but a granite doorway depicting Amenhotep II before Montu-re has been saved among the later remains of columns. Little now rests of the sanctuary, which had a passage around it leading off to small chambers.

Behind the essential part of the temple was a great East Court which was a precinct of the sacred bull, the incarnation of the god. On the rests of the exterior south wall is a relief of Trajan worshipping the sacred bull which marks a situation where oracles were saved.

Within the temple enclosure was a sacred lake, a well and granaries, now gone. A small temple of Ptolemy III Euergetes I once subbed the southwest corner and sphinxes lined a prosodion way lead from the main temple down to the quay.

To the east of the temple precinct was a cemetery. A block field on the southern incline of the temple is worth investigating as it contains many worrying fragmentary backups.

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·        Khamudi
·        Mayer Papyri

Mayer Papyri

The Mayer Papyri are two Ancient Egyptian written documents from the 12th Dynasty that hold records of court legal proceedings. The best noted of the two is Papyrus Mayer A. It takes with court sessions checked the first two years of the Whm Mswt or Renaissance, an era which got in year 19 of king Ramesses XI.

A panel dwelling of the vizier of the South and 3 full officials cross-tried surmises little with tomb looting at Deir el-Bahri (cf. as well the Abbott Papyrus and the Amherst Papyrus). The inquiry of both distrusts and viewers was leaded by a falanga and an oath in the name of the king was administered.

The confessions of the six surmises were confirmed by the testimonial of the chief of police of the Theban Necropolis and other viewers, among them the son of one of the cops who had died in the meantime. This witness claims to have been a child at the time of the offence; still, he was beaten when he was being tried, as was a female discover. While the ancient Egyptian judicial system was quite brutal and partial against the criminated, a verdict of guilty was not a old end: Papyrus Mayer A records the run of five men who had been saw to be free.

Papyrus Mayer B is a papyrus fragmentize, only inscribed on the recto. It consists of 14 maintained horizontal lines of hieratic script, in a form regular of the Twentieth Dynasty. Both its start and end are half. It deals with the looting of the tomb of king Ramesses VI, which is not related to in any of the other tomb-robbery papyri. No names of officials have survived in the extant part of the papyrus. Of the five cops described, none can be described with certainty. It has been suggested that the coppersmith Pentahetnakht may have been identical to the coppersmith Pentahetnakht, son of Kedakhtef, referred in Pap. BM 10054 as a member of a pack which was tried in year 16 of Ramesses IX, but this continues a simple hypothesis.

Cyril Aldred has commented that the caisson of the sarcophagus of Ramesses VI must have been taken comparatively soon after the burial, because the sacramental oils had not yet had the time to solidify, but whether this was done during the pilfering by the cops tried in Pap. Mayer B continues uncertain.

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Khamudi

The hieroglyphic name of KhamudiI

Khamudi was the last ruler of the Hyksos Fifteenth Dynasty, named the essential Hyksos. Khamudi dominated from c. 1550 B.C.E. until his death. He is  listed  in  the turin canon and  was  addressed  Asseth  by Manetho, the Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.C.E.) historian. In other numbers he is described Aazekhre. Khamudis Obelisk was addressed at the broken capital of Avaris in the east  Delta.  He  had  the  tough luck  of  rising  to power  when Ahmose (1550-1525  B.C.E.)  gone  the yield of the Eighteenth Dynasty at Thebes. There was a period  of  relational  calm  for  the  first  ten  of Ahmoses prevail, but upon reaching majority he regenerated Thebess violation on the Hyksos, at last kicking out them from power and pushing them to flee from Egypt.

Cartouche show the name of Khamud

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·        Nebyet
·        Maya
·        Khamsin
·        Maia
·        Akhet
·        Necho I (672-664 BC)

Necho I (672-664 BC)

The hieroglyphic name of Necho I

Necho I, Prince of the Delta city of Sais, was installed as ruler by the Assyrian conqueror Esarhaddon, who was a policy of giving limited agency to those native Egyptian princes whom he could trust. Necho got the best of these and managed power not only in Sais but besides in Memphis; he passed to possess a great kingdom in the southwestern Delta and to follow the pharaonic style in his own title. He credibly began to rule as a local king in Sais in 672 BC and was fixed as ruler by Esarhaddon in 671 BC.

Necho I

As the chief liege of the Assyrians in Egypt, Necho became a prime target for Tanuatamun,  the  nephew  of  King Taharka  of  the 25th  Dynasty.  On Taharkas death, Tanuatamun claimed the kingship of Nubia and of Egypt (664-656 BC), briefly restitution the country from the Assyrians and their lieges. He sailed northward to Thebes and last continued to the Delta and Memphis where he killed Necho I, whom the Assyrians had determined as local ruler. This power was working; Psammetichus I (son of Necho I) conquered control and set himself as king of Egypt and the yield of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty. Necho I left few repositories; his great part was to enable his posterity to gain power and establish themselves as the native rulers of an clear Twenty-sixth Dynasty.

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·        Nebyet
·        Maya
·        Khamsin
·        Maia
·        Akhet

Akhet

The hieroglyphic name of Akhet

Akhet was the temper of inundation in the ancient Egyptian calendar, the coming of Sirius, the dogstar, addressed Sopdu by the Egyptians and Sothis by the Greeks, signed the start of the annual swamping of the Nile. When this sign come out in the spheres the river was set to open over the subjects and orchards on the  banks, stimulating the land with silt and effluvium from Africas core. Akhet was the first temper of the year, relieved as it did with the coming of the Nile, a component that full Egyptians read as basic to the nations animation. Akhet was one of the three major flavours of the Egyptian calendar year, with a duration of four 30-day months. Akhet was come on the calendar by the seasons Proyet and Shomu.

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·        Maxims of Ptah-hotep
·        Khamet
·        Nebyet
·        Maya
·        Khamsin
·        Maia