Mentuhotep (queen)

Queen Mentuhotep was the wife of the Egyptian king Djehuti, the (ca. 1700-1550 BC) reigned in the Second Intermediate Period.

Documents

Mentuhotep is mainly known from her coffin, which saw 1832 in Thebes and its inscriptions by John Gardner Wilkinson were copied. The coffin has since disappeared, but the copies of the inscriptions have been preserved. Your name will also appear in a dedicatory inscription on the canopic chest of Djehuti that these well himself never used and gave it to his wife. This case demonstrates the connection between the two people.

Mentuhotep is referred to in the coffin as the daughter of the vizier Senebhenaf and a Sobekhotep and bears the title " Great King 's Wife" and " that which is united with the White Crown".

Actually, " Mentuhotep " a man's name. Especially in the Second Intermediate Period this was also often worn by women.

Special coffin inscriptions

What the coffin but particularly distinguishes the inscriptions on the inside, where it is long religious texts. Some of them can be referred to as Coffin Texts, in another part is early evidence of the so-called Book of the Dead. For some important sayings of the Book of the Dead, the coffin represents the earliest evidence to date and shows that many sayings of this collection of texts arose before the New Kingdom.

Dating

Based on the parents of these queen was often she tries - and thus her husband Djehuti - more accurately classified within the Second Intermediate Period. It was assumed that her father Senebhenaf was the son of another vizier named Jaib, which in turn was dated under King Jaib. Accordingly, the Queen is dated two generations after King Jaib. These classifications were made based on homonyms for officials who bore the names Senebhenaf and Jaib, whereby a Wesirsfamilie was reconstructed. These reconstructions have been able to but not really convincing, since the identifications of the persons mentioned are very uncertain.