Merankhre Mentuhotep
| Merankhre Mentuhotep VI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Montuhotep VI | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Statue of Mentuhotep VI, British Museum EA 65429. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Reign | short, ca. 1585 BC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | uncertain, Djedankhre Montemsaf[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | uncertain, Senusret IV[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Consort | Sitmut ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Herunefer ? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 16th dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Merankhre Mentuhotep VI was a
Attestations
Merankhre Mentuhotep is only attested through two statuettes, JE 37418/CG 42021 and BM EA 65429. The first, discovered in the Karnak cachette by Georges Legrain,[4] is missing its head and feet and gives the king's nomen and prenomen as well as a dedication to the god Sobek, lord of smnw.[2][3] The second statuette, whose origin is unknown, also bears the titulary of the king but with no dedication.
Another possible attestation of Merankhre Mentuhotep VI is given by a fragment of a wooden coffin, now in the British Museum under the catalog number BM EA 29997. The coffin bears the following text:[2]
The Patrician, Royal Representative, Eldest King's son, the Senior Commander Herunefer,
true of voice, who was begotten by king Mentuhotep, true of voice, and borne by the senior Queen Sitmut.
The
Chronological position
Merankhre Mentuhotep is not attested on the surviving fragments of the Turin canon, his reign and those of four other kings of the end of the 16th Dynasty being lost in a lacuna.[2] For this reason, the exact chronological position as well as the length of his reign cannot be ascertained. Ryholt proposes that Merankhre Mentuhotep was a king of the late 16th dynasty based on two arguments. First, his prenomen Merankhre has the form X-ankh-re, similar to that of Djedankhre Montemsaf and both kings bear the nomen Montu-X which indicates that they succeeded one another closely in time. Second, the first statuette of Merankhre Mentuhotep is dedicated to Sobek of smnw (Sumenu) and was therefore probably set up at el-Mahamid Qibli near Gebelein where both Dedumose II and Djedankhre Montemsaf are attested before being moved to the Karnak cachette at a later point in time, perhaps at the collapse of the dynasty.
In an older study conducted in 1964 by Jürgen von Beckerath, Merankhre Mentuhotep was classified as a king of the 13th Dynasty.[6]
References
- ^ a b New arrangement on Digital Egypt for Universities
- ^ a b c d e Kim Ryholt: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c.1800-1550 B.C, Museum Tusculanum Press, (1997)
- ^ ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 232
- ^ IFAO, The Karnak cachette: complete list of objects
- ^ Aidan Dodson, Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames and Hudson, 2004.
- ^ Jürgen von Beckerath: Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte der zweiten Zwischenzeit in Ägypten, Glückstadt 1964, S. 63, 255–256 (XIII G.)
External links
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