Amenemhat (High Priest of Amun) explained

See Amenemhat (disambiguation), for other individuals with this name.

Amenemhat
Style:High Priest of Amun
Predecessor:Menkheperreseneb II
Successor:Mery (High Priest of Amun)
Pharaoh:Amenhotep II
Father:Djehutyhotep
Burial:Thebes, TT97

Amenemhat was an ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun at Karnak, during the reign of pharaoh Amenhotep II of the 18th Dynasty.

A son of the wab-priest and "Overseer of the sandal makers of Amun", Djehutyhotep, Amenemhat is attested by several funerary cones now exhibited at the University College, London (UC 37551)[1] and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York;[2] he also left an inscription outlining his career at Gebel el-Silsila.[3]
He was probably buried in TT97 at Qurna, near Thebes.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: UC 37551 . University College London.
  2. C. W. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt II, pg. 147
  3. O’Connor and Cline (eds), Thutmose III: A New Biography, pg. 157