Djehutyemhat,[2] or Thotemhat,[3] 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 appear 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).[3][4][5] The only known depiction of the king is found on a votive scribal pallet now in the collection of the Egypt Centre of Swansea University.[2]

British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen has suggested that the successor of Djehutyemhat could have been the poorly known "king" Pedinemty.[6]

Notes

  1. ↑ Wenet was the 15th nome 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 Troy Leiland Sagrillo. 2017. “King Djeḥuty-em-ḥat in Swansea: Three model scribal palettes in the collection of the Egypt Centre of Swansea University.” In A true scribe of Abydos: Essays on first millennium Egypt in honour of Anthony Leahy, edited by Claus Jurman, B. Bader, and David A. Aston. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 265. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters. 385-414.
  3. 1 2 Spencer, P.A. & Spencer, A.J. (1986), "Notes on Late Libyan Period", JEA 72, pp. 198–201
  4. ↑ Kitchen, op. cit., § 109; 331
  5. ↑ The bronze naos-shaped amulet EA11015 at the British Museum.
  6. ↑ Kitchen, op. cit., § 525
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