Amenhotep, son of Hapu

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Amenhotep
Sculpture of Amenhotep, son of Hapu
Bornc. 1425 BC
Athribis, Lower Egypt
Diedc. 1356 BC (aged c. 69)
Thebes?, Egypt
OccupationPolymath

Amenhotep, son of Hapu (transcribed jmn-ḥtp zꜣ ḥꜣp.w;[

public official, who held a number of offices under Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty
.

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He was posthumously deified as a god of healing.

Life

He is said to have been born at the end of

Temple of Karnak, completed under Ramesses II, and those for the Luxor Temple are also attributed to Amenhotep. He may also have been the architect of the Temple of Soleb in Nubia.[2] Amenhotep is noted to have participated in Amenhotep III's first Sed festival, in the 30th year of the king's rule. After this, he is believed to have retired from civil service and become the steward of Princess Sitamun's properties (similar to an asset manager today), and received honours such as the designation of Fan-bearer on the Right Side of the King, among other things. According to some reliefs in the tomb of Ramose, he may have died in the 31st year of Amenhotep III, which would correspond to either 1360 BC or 1357 BC, depending on the chronology
used. His death has also been dated to the 35th year of the king.

Amenhotep, son of Hapu, as an elderly man. Egyptian Museum, Cairo.

Legacy

After his death, his reputation grew and he was revered for his teachings and as a philosopher. He was also revered as a healer and eventually worshipped as a god of healing, like his predecessor

Temple of Amun at Karnak and he was treated as an intermediary with the god Amun.[2] Amenhotep also utilised his influence with the king to secure royal patronage for the town of Athribis, for the local god, and the temple dedicated to that god.[5]

Akhenaton also known as Amenhotep IV, while Orus fits with the latter's father, Amenhotep III. Manetho relates that the wise man counseled that the king should "clear the whole country of the lepers and of the other impure people" and that the King then sent 80,000 lepers to the quarries. After this the wise man foresaw that the lepers would ally themselves with people coming to their help and subdue Egypt. He put the prophecy into letter to the King and then killed himself. Manetho associates this event with the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt, but Josephus strongly rejects this interpretation.[7]

Mortuary temple

Amenhotep was allowed to build his mortuary temple adjacent to that of the pharaoh. This honour is quite rare and indicates that Amenhotep was highly respected by the time of his death, despite the fact that he was a commoner and had only entered civil service at an advanced age, in his late forties. Excavated in 1934 or 1935, it measures 45 × 110 metres and is surrounded by three shrines. His first courtyard contained a 25 × 26 m water basin of considerable depth, fed by groundwater from the

Nile. Twenty trees were planted in pits around the basin. The temple at the end of the courtyard was adorned with a pillared portico
, and the temple was slightly elevated on a terrace.

See also

References

  1. ISBN 0814791697
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  2. ^
    ISBN 978-0-500-05120-7
    .
  3. ISSN 1388-3909. Retrieved May 30, 2020. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help
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  4. ^ Bart, Anneke (September 2008). "Amenhotep son of Hapu". slu.edu. Saint Louis University. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  5. ^ Doffinger, André. "Inscriptions of Amenhotep, son of Hapu". reshafim.org.il. Retrieved 20 December 2017.
  6. ^ Against Apion 1:26
  7. ISBN 978-0674587397

Further reading

  • J. H. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, Part Two, 1906
  • Warren R. Dawson, Bridle of Pegasus, 1930, pp. 55ff.
  • Miriam Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature: A Book of Readings: The Late Period, 1980, University of California Press, Page 104
  • Siegfried Morenz, Egyptian Religion, 1992 Cornell University Press
  • Margaret Alice Murray, 1931, Egyptian Temples, 2002 Courier Dover Publications
  • Boyo Ockinga, Amenophis, Son of Hapu: A Biographical Sketch, The Rundle Foundation for Egyptian Archaeology Newsletter No. 18, February 1986

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