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Chapter Five - The Beginning of the Twelfth Dynasty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 November 2020

Lisa K. Sabbahy
Affiliation:
American University of Cairo
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A literary text, The Prophecy of Neferti, is used to shed light on the beginning of the reign of Amenemhat I (Berman 1985, 19). The text, written in the Eighteenth Dynasty of the New Kingdom but set in the Fourth Dynasty reign of King Sneferu, describes a future in which the situation in Egypt will be a time of civil strife, disorder, and foreign invasion. “Then a king will come from the South, Ameny, the justified, by name, son of a woman of Ta-seti, child of Upper Egypt” (Lichtheim 1973, 143). The name Ameny is short for Amenemhat (Posener 1956, 22–23).

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Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt
From the Old Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom
, pp. 138 - 160
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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