Meketre

The hieroglyphic of Meketre

The Ancient Egyptian official Meketre was chancellor and high custodian during the rule of Mentuhotep II, Mentuhotep III and maybe Amenemhat I, in the Middle Kingdom.

Meketre is first genuine in a rock dedication in the Wadi Shatt el-Rigala. Here he bears the simple title sealer. The inscription is dated to year 41 of king Mentuhotep II. On rests from the mortuary temple of the very king in Deir el-Bahari Meketre takes the title of chancellor and was evidently advertised in the meantime, succeeding Kheti. The same title was learned on a statue in Meketre's tomb while on relief fragmentizes in the tomb he held the important title of high custodian. The tomb (TT280) is located in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, section of the Theban Necropolis, and lies next to a large, incomplete royal tomb which was originally ascribed to king Mentuhotep III and, afterward new researchs, to Amenemhat I. Therefore, Meketre most future died under the latter king.

Chancellor Méketre watch
the counting of his cattle

Meketre's tomb TT280 contained some wooden replicas, representing the daily activities and life in Ancient Egypt, together with statuettes of ships and cattle were, miniature edifices and gardens.

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Neferheteperes (Princess)

Neferheteperes (c. 2566-2558 BC) princess (Queen?) of Fourth Dynasty, Old Kingdom. Neferheteperes was the girl of King Djedefre, the replacement of King Khnum-Khufu. It has been speculated that she was besides a queen, the mother of King Userkaf, the abandon of the Fifth Dynasty, whose mother bore the same name. If this were the face, she would be specially significant in the publicity of the solar religion, which gone markedly more important in the Fifth Dynasty under the influence of the priests of Heliopolis. A story, current in the late Old Kingdom, ascribed the fatherhood of the first pharaohs of the Fifth Dynasty to the god Ra by a mortal woman, Radjedet. Part of a statue of Neferheteperes was learned at Abu Roash.

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Amara

Stela at Amara

Amara was a fortified site about Wadi Halfa on the Nile in Nubia, modern  Sudan,  Amara  was  launched  by  Seti I (1306-1290 B.C.E.). There are two settlements involved in Amara,  on  the  eastern  and  western  relies  of  the  river. Amara West was a vast Fortress complex with introducing walls  and  defences. Amara  East dates to the Meroitic Period (c. 300 B.C.E.350 A.D.). The rests of a Ramessid temple, likely erected by Ramesses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.), and a necropolis were discovered here.

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