Abstract
The inscriptions recovered from the looted necropolis of Kom el-Khamaseen, located in southwest Saqqara and dated between the end of the Old Kingdom and the beginning of the First Intermediate Period, document a hitherto unknown high priest of Memphis: Imephor Impy Nikauptah. This character must be incorporated into our prosopographical repertoires and placed in his historical and cultural context. This provides a good opportunity to return to the issue of the Memphite pontificate during the third millennium B.C. as a whole. The aim of this article is therefore to offer, on the one hand, a systematic and updated overview of the subject by integrating the new data from Kom el-Khamaseen, drawing upon the complete sources, and critically reviewing the literature on the matter. On the other hand, it is also about providing a new reasoned chronological list and a prosopography of the Memphite high priests of the Old Kingdom and the First Intermediate Period.
Translated title of the contribution | Los sumos sacerdotes de Menfis durante el Reino Antiguo y el Primer Período Intermedio :: un estudio de actualización y una prosopografía |
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Original language | English |
Pages (from-to) | 0007-63 |
Number of pages | 57 |
Journal | Trabajos de egiptología |
Issue number | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
Keywords
- Greatest of the directors of craftsmen
- Memphite cults
- Ptah
- Saqqara
- Sokar
- Jefe de los directores de los artesanos
- Cultos menfitas