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Aamu
Aamu is an Egyptian term, usually translated "Asiatic," for the Semitic-speaking peoples of the Levant, attested from the Sixth Dynasty and especially common in Middle Kingdom sources.
Ahmes
Ahmes, Egyptian Ahmose, was an ancient Egyptian scribe who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus in year 33 of King Apepi, around 1537 BCE, and is known from nothing else.
Ahmosid family
Ahmose-Nebetta was a royal woman of the Ahmosid family, the Theban house that expelled the Hyksos and founded the 18th Dynasty; she is not among the mummies securely identified in cache TT320.
Amenemhat (nomarch of the Oryx nome)
Amenemhat, also known as Ameny, was a Dynasty 12 Egyptian nomarch who governed the Oryx nome under Senusret I and was buried in tomb BH2 at Beni Hasan.
Amenemhatankh (prince)
Amenemhatankh (Amenemhat-ankh) was a royal prince of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, a possible son of King Amenemhat II who did not succeed to the throne, and was buried at Dahshur.
Amenemhatankh (vizier)
Amenemhatankh, also written Amenemhat-ankh, was a vizier of Middle Kingdom Egypt, previously unknown to scholarship until a single false door fragment bearing his name and titles was published in 2008.
Ameny (general)
Ameny was a chief general of the Egyptian army under King Amenemhat II of the Twelfth Dynasty, known from stelae at Abydos and a tomb at Lisht.
Ameny (vizier under Amenemhat II)
Ameny was a high official of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, attested as overseer of marshland dwellers and governor of Elephantine around the transition from Senwosret I to Amenemhat II.
Amenyseneb
Amenyseneb, also transcribed Imenyseneb or Amenysoneb, was an ancient Egyptian official and wab-priest at Abydos under pharaoh Khendjer, c. 1750 BC, known from four stelae and for restoring the Osiris temple.
Ankhu (vizier)
Ankhu was a vizier of ancient Egypt who held the southern half of a divided vizierate, seated at Thebes, during the Thirteenth Dynasty around 1790 BC.
Baqet III
Baqet III was a governor of the Oryx nome in Upper Egypt at the end of the Eleventh Dynasty, known from his decorated rock tomb at Beni Hassan.
Bebi (vizier)
Bebi was a high official of ancient Egypt's 11th Dynasty who served as vizier to King Mentuhotep II, known only from a relief caption at Deir el-Bahari.
Dagi (vizier)
Dagi was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty, serving as treasurer and vizier under Mentuhotep II and Mentuhotep III around 2010–1988 BC, and buried in tomb TT 103 at Thebes.
Dedusobek Bebi
Dedusobek Bebi was an Egyptian high official of the late 13th Dynasty who held the office of Great Scribe of the Vizier and is known from a stela in the Louvre.
Djefaihapi I
Djefaihapi I, also known as Djefai-Hapi, was a nomarch governing Asyut in Middle Egypt during the reign of Senusret I of the 12th Dynasty, with the largest private rock-cut tomb of the Middle Kingdom.
Djefaihapi II
Djefaihapi II was a nomarch, or provincial governor, of the 13th Upper Egyptian nome seated at Asyut, flourishing in the early 12th Dynasty, most probably under King Amenemhat I.
Djehutihotep
Djehutihotep, also known as Tehuti-hotep, was a 12th Dynasty nomarch of the Hare nome, serving under Senwosret II and Senusret III in Egypt's Middle Kingdom.
Gebu (high steward)
Gebu was a high steward of Egypt during the late Middle Kingdom, an official managing the provisions, granaries, and herds that sustained the royal house.
Haankhef
Haankhef was an Egyptian of the Thirteenth Dynasty, known as the non-royal father of the pharaohs Neferhotep I and Sobekhotep IV, whose reigns spanned roughly 20 years.
Hannu
Hannu, also read Henu or Henenu, was a high official of Egypt's Eleventh Dynasty whose Wadi Hammamat inscription records dispatching ships to Punt under Mentuhotep III.
Henenu
Henenu was a high official and chief steward of Eleventh Dynasty Egypt under King Mentuhotep II, known from his large mortuary complex at Deir el-Bahari.
Heqaib III
Heqaib III was a governor of Elephantine in ancient Egypt during the late 12th Dynasty, under Amenemhat III, known from a statue in the sanctuary of Heqaib.
Hor (overseer of the treasury)
Hor was a high steward, a leading court official, under the 12th Dynasty king Senusret I, known from a limestone stela from Abydos now in the Louvre.
Horemkhauef
Horemkhauef, also known as Horemkhaef, was a priest and field overseer at Hierakonpolis, known from his painted rock-cut tomb and biographical limestone stela found there in 1934–35.
Hornakht (17th Dynasty)
Hornakht was an official of the Theban 17th Dynasty during Egypt's Second Intermediate Period, known only from a rishi-coffin burial found at Dra Abu el-Naga in 1862.
Ibiaw
Ibiaw was a vizier of ancient Egypt during the 13th Dynasty of the late Middle Kingdom, holding the highest administrative office, second only to the king.
Ikhernofret
Ikhernofret was a royal treasurer and seal-bearer who served Senusret III in Egypt's 12th Dynasty, best known from a stela describing the Osiris mysteries at Abydos.
Intefiqer
Intefiqer (or Antefoqer) was a highly attested vizier and governor of Thebes in Egypt's early Twelfth Dynasty who served Amenemhat I and Senusret I.
Ipi (vizier)
Ipi, also written Ipy, was a vizier of ancient Egypt in the early Twelfth Dynasty, most probably serving under King Amenemhat I, known for his large rock-cut tomb TT315 at Deir el-Bahari, Thebes.
Itaweret
Itaweret, also written Ita-weret, was a royal woman of Egypt's 12th Dynasty, probably a daughter of Amenemhat II. Her intact tomb beside the king's pyramid at Dahshur was found in 1894.