Middle kingdom egypt art

Hierakonpolis
Ankhtifi tomb
Old kingdom egypt

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Ankhtifi of ancient Egypt substituting for the king

Ankhtifi of ancient Egypt substituting for the king by Damien F. Mackey “I am a man without equal …. I am the front of people and the back of people because (my) like will not exist; he will not exist. (My) like could not have been born; he was not born”. Autobiography of Ankhtifi Senenmut (Senmut) was merely “the greatest of the great in the land [of Egypt]”. Ankhtifi, on the other hand, claimed an honour that would later be accorded by Jesus to John the Baptist, ‘greatest ever born’ (Matthew 11:11). What we would term today, the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time). We know precisely when Senenmut lived, during the reign of the female Pharaoh, Hatshepsut, of Egypt’s Eighteenth Dynasty: https://ancientegyptonline.co.uk/senenmut/ Senenmut Senenmut (literally “mother’s brother”, sometimes transliterated as Senemut or Senmut) was one of the most powerful and famous (or infamous) officials of ancient Egypt. At the height of his power he was the Chief Steward of Amun, Tutor to the Princess Neferure and confidant (and possibly lover) of the P

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Ancient Man and His First Civilizations

Ankhtifi was a nomarch during the First Intermediate Period (probably under the 8th dynasty). He was buried in the necropolis of Moalla a few kilometres south of Thebes. His tomb contains his biography, with the exaggerations typical of these inscriptions intended to make a good impression upon the gods. Ankhtifi may have been a good administrator, he was not a philanthropist: the corn he sent north and south had to be paid for.

I was the beginning and the end of mankind, since nobody like myself existed before nor will he exist; nobody like me was ever born nor will he be born. I surpassed the feats of the ancestors, and coming generations will not be able to equal me in any of my feats within this million of years.
..... "the sky was clouded and the earth [...] of hunger on this sandbank of Apophis. The south came with its people and the north with its children; they brought the finest oil in exchange for the barley which was given them. My barley went upstream until it reached lower Nubia and downstream until it re

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Ankhtifi

Nomarch of Hierakonpolis of Ancient Egypt

Ankhtifi (or Ankhtify) was an ancient Egyptian nobleman, administrator, and military commander. The nomarch of Nekhen and a supporter of the pharaoh in Heracleopolis Magna (10th Dynasty), which was locked in a conflict with the Theban based 11th Dynasty kingdom for control of Egypt. Hence, Ankhtifi was possibly a rival to the Theban rulers Mentuhotep I and Intef I. He lived during the First Intermediate Period, after the Egyptian Old Kingdom state had collapsed, and at a time when economic hardship, political instability, and foreign invasion challenged the fabric of Egyptian society.

Biography

The precise pharaoh under whom Ankhtifi served is anything but certain; the sequence and number of kings in the 9th and 10th dynasties is a matter of widely varying conjecture. Only a few of the many names on the much later king-lists have had their reigns or existence corroborated through scattered archaeological finds. The only pharaoh mentioned in Ankhtifi's tomb is in the following isolated inscription: "Horus brings/