Khety II (nomarch)
| Khety II | |
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| Nomarch of the 13th nomos of Upper Egypt | |
Merykare | |
| Father | Tefibi |
| Burial | Asyut, tomb IV |
Khety II was an
Biography
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| Khety in hieroglyphs | ||||
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| Era: 1st Intermediate Period (2181–2055 BC) | ||||
He was one of the last of a long line of nomarchs in Asyut with strong bonds of loyalty and friendship towards the Herakleopolite dynasty: his father was the nomarch Tefibi, himself son of the nomarch Khety I,[2] and a Herakleopolite pharaoh had joined the mourning for the latter's grandfather (i.e. Khety II's great-great-grandfather).
After Tefibi's death, Khety II was installed as a nomarch by king Merykare himself, who sailed up the Nile with his court on a fleet. It is known that Khety II undertook some restoration works in the local temple of Wepwawet.[1]
He was loyal to the 10th Dynasty until the end, and probably died shortly before the fall of Asyut by the
His unfinished tomb at Asyut (no. IV) is the best preserved among the tombs of his relatives, which are unfortunately ruined, and it is also the only one mentioning a royal name (Merykare).[2] It has been excavated several times since the late 19th century, most recently in 2003–2006.[3]
References
- ^ ISBN 0-521-077915, pp. 467–470.
- ^ a b Donald B. Spanel, in Donald B. Redford (ed), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2001, pp. 154-6.
- ^ El Khadragu, Mahmoud, "New Discoveries in the Tomb of Khety II at Asyut", Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology 17, 2006.
Further reading
- Francis Llewellyn Griffith, The inscriptions of Siut and Dêr Rîfeh, London, 1889 (available online)
- Donald B. Spanel, "The Herakleopolitan Tombs of Kheti I, Jt(.j)jb(.j), and Kheti II at Asyut", Orientalia, 58, 1989, pp. 301–14.