NMC101H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Lapis Lazuli, Amenemhat Ii, Mentuhotep Iii
26 Nov 2012
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Son of imi, secondary wife of mentuhotep ii or mentuhotep iii: tomb was never finished, robbed out in antiquity. Mentuhotep iv: missing on most king lists, heir to the throne, other claimants, quaker intef, sekhentibre, menekhkare cessor, expedition to wadi hammamat lead by vizier amenemhat who may be mentuhotep iv"s suc- Government and administration of the 11th dynasty: change of ideology, ok = implicit statement, king"s word is law and fact, military action and trade expeditions, perhaps even direct control (going with army and en- Everyone who could afford to could become osiris. Funerary customs and tombs: existence of social inequality and stratification. Image: montu the war god of thebes, sun disk and tow plums, falcon head. Shaft graves, usually with a coffin deposited in a subsurface chamber accessibly by a rectan- gular shaft. Tombs with the burial within sever several coffins and a stone sarcophagus in a stone-mantled subsurface chamber accessibly by a corridor.
