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Ahanakht I
Ahanakht I, also written Ahanekht, was an ancient Egyptian nomarch and Great Chief of the Hare Nome, buried at Deir el-Bersha in Middle Egypt in the late Eleventh Dynasty.
Akhethetep (son of Ptahhotep)
Akhethetep was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official and vizier, father of the vizier Ptahhotep II, buried with his son in the double mastaba D64 at Saqqara.
Ankhmahor
Ankhmahor, also written Ankhmahor-Sesi, was a vizier under King Teti, first king of Egypt's Dynasty 6, around 2340 BC, buried in a Saqqara mastaba called the Tomb of the Physician for its circumcision relief.
Ankhtifi
Ankhtifi, also written Ankhtify, was a nomarch of Edfu and Hierakonpolis in Egypt's First Intermediate Period around 2100 BC, whose rock-cut tomb at Mo'alla holds one of the era's best-preserved autobiographies.
Ankhwa
Ankhwa was an ancient Egyptian official of the Third Dynasty, around 2686–2613 BC, who held the titles royal acquaintance and shipwright, known from a granite statue in the British Museum.
Babaef
Babaef, also known as Khnumbaf, was a high official of ancient Egypt at the end of the Fourth Dynasty, serving as vizier and overseer of all royal works.
Debehen
Debehen, also spelled Debhen or Debeheni, was a Fourth Dynasty Egyptian court official and priest under King Menkaure, buried in mastaba G 8090 at Giza.
Djari
Djari was an Egyptian official and military commander at the Theban court of king Intef II, known from two stelae recording his campaigns in the Thinis region.
Djau (nomarch of Abydos)
Djau was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian vizier from a powerful Abydos family; his sisters married Pepy I, and he served under Pepy I, Merenre, and Pepy II.
Djehutynakht (ancient Egyptian nomarch)
Djehutynakht was a provincial governor (nomarch) of the Hare nome in Middle Egypt in the early Middle Kingdom, buried in Tomb 10A at Deir el-Bersha, discovered in 1915.
Harkhuf
Harkhuf was an Egyptian governor under kings Merenre and Pepi II who led four trading expeditions to Nubia, recording them in his tomb autobiography at Aswan.
Hemiunu
Hemiunu (Hemon) was a prince and vizier of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty serving King Khufu in the early twenty-sixth century BC, traditionally credited as architect of the Great Pyramid.
Hemre Isi
Hemre Isi, also written Hemre Izi, was a provincial governor of the 12th nome of Upper Egypt in Old Kingdom Egypt, buried at Deir el-Gebrawi.
Henqu I
Henqu I was an ancient Egyptian provincial governor of the Twelfth Upper Egyptian nome, buried in a rock-cut tomb on the northern cliff of Deir el-Gebrawi.
Ibi (nomarch of Thinis)
Ibi was a Sixth Dynasty Egyptian provincial governor who served under Pepi I, Merenre, and Pepi II, known from his autobiographical tomb inscription at Deir el-Gebrawi.
Ibi (vizier of Pepi II)
Ibi (Jbj) was a 6th-Dynasty Egyptian official, governor of the 12th Upper Egyptian nome under Merenre and Pepy II, buried in a rock tomb at Deir el-Gebrawi; despite his label, he was not a vizier.
Idi (governor of Elephantine)
Idi, also written Idy, was an 8th Dynasty Egyptian official and son of the vizier Shemay, appointed Governor of Upper Egypt over the seven southernmost nomes by king Neferkauhor.
Idu (official of Pepi I)
Idu was an ancient Egyptian official of the Sixth Dynasty who served King Pepi I and was buried in mastaba tomb G 7102 in the Eastern Cemetery at Giza.
Idu II
Idu II, conventionally called Idu II of Dendera, was a nomarch of Upper Egypt under Pepi II, the last king of Dynasty 6, in the late Old Kingdom.
Idudju-iker
Idudju-iker was an Egyptianized Lower Nubian ruler of the early Eleventh Dynasty, known from a biographical stela found at South Abydos recording his alliance with Thebes.
Idy (nomarch of Coptos)
Idy, also written Idi, was a nomarch of Coptos in Upper Egypt during the late Eighth Dynasty, appointed overseer of Upper Egypt by king Neferkauhor and later attested as vizier.
Ihtubi
Ihtubi, also known as Iti-ibi or Tefibi, was a nomarch, or provincial governor, of Asyut in Middle Egypt during the 21st century BCE, under the Herakleopolitan Tenth Dynasty.
Ihy (overseer of the treasury)
Ihy was a high-ranking official of Egypt's late Fifth Dynasty under King Unas, buried in a mastaba at Saqqara and credited with the vizier's title.
Intef (general)
Intef was a Theban military official of the Eleventh Dynasty, overseer of troops under King Mentuhotep II, known from a statue in Theban tomb 386.
Itet
Itet, also written Atet, was an Egyptian noblewoman of the early 4th Dynasty, wife of the high official Nefermaat, whose joint mastaba at Meidum yielded the Meidum Geese painting.
Iti-ib
Iti-ib, also known as Ity-ib, was a nomarch of Asyut in the First Intermediate Period, known from his rock-cut Tomb III at Gebel Asyut al-gharbi.
Izi (nomarch)
Izi, also known as Isi, was a provincial governor of Egypt's 2nd Upper Egyptian nome at Edfu under the 5th and 6th Dynasties, later venerated as a local saint.
Izi (overseer of the treasury)
Izi is an Old Kingdom Egyptian official who held the title overseer of the treasury, one of the officials recorded in Nigel Strudwick's 1985 prosopography of the Old Kingdom administration.
Kaaper
Kaaper, also written Ka-aper and known as Sheikh el-Beled, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian chief lector priest whose life-size wooden statue, found at Saqqara, is in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Kagemni
Kagemni, also called Memi, was chief justice and vizier of Egypt under King Teti of Dynasty 6, known from his decorated mastaba tomb at North Saqqara.