Djehutyemhat

Djehutyemhat, or Thotemhat,[2] was an ancient Egyptian ruler ("king") of Hermopolis during the 25th Dynasty.

Biography

Like his probable predecessor Nimlot, he proclaimed himself king, adopting the full royal titulary although he was no more than a governor of Hermopolis and a vassal of the Kushite 25th Dynasty. His cartouches appears carved on the shoulders of a damaged block statue depicting the priest Tjanhesret, found in Luxor in 1909 and now in the Cairo Museum (CG 42212), and on a bronze naos-shaped amulet of Amun-Ra of unknown provenance – possibly from Thebes – and now in the British Museum (EA11015).[2][3][4]

British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen has suggested that the successor of Djehutyemhat could have been the poorly known "king" Pedinemty.[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Wenet was the 15th district of Upper Egypt, with Hermopolis as capital.

References

  1. 1 2 Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, ISBN 0-85668-298-5, table 16B
  2. 1 2 Spencer, P.A. & Spencer, A.J. (1986), "Notes on Late Libyan Period", JEA 72, pp. 198–201
  3. ↑ Kitchen, op. cit., § 109; 331
  4. ↑ The bronze naos-shaped amulet EA11015 at the British Museum.
  5. ↑ Kitchen, op. cit., § 525


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