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Rulers of the 11th Dynasty:

Intef/Antef I ... Sehertawy
Intef/Antef II ... Wahankh
Intef/Antef III ... Nakjtnebtepnefer

May date to late Hyksos period.



Mentuhotep I - Conventional First Intermediate Period ends about halfway through his reign
Mentuhotep II8)
Mentuhotep III13)

May date to 3rd Dynasty times.

01. See B. Winkelman, `The Mortuary Complex at Deir el Bahari of Nebhepetre Montuhotep' in KMT, Vol. 12, Fall 2001, p. 36-49; Featuring images, drawings and architectural details. [See also N. Reeves, `Ancient Egypt,' p. 106; Bab-el Hasan, The tomb of the horse.]
02. The Stela of Merer in Cracow (Long. ca. 19.9 & Lat. 50.06) is thought to belong to the First Intermediate Period on the basis of "The forms of the signs...". [J. Cerny, `The Stela of Merer in Cracow' in JEA, Vol. 47, 1961, p. 5-9.]
03. The content mentions "I buried him who was dead and fed him who was alive wherever I alighted in this famine which occured."[Ibid., p. 6]
04. The good quality BW image of the sepulchral stela of Antef featuring plenty of hieroglyphic writing, an official who flourished under the Kings Uah-ankh-Antef aa, Nekht-neb-tep-nefer-Antef, and Sankh-ab-taui-Menthu-hetep (Sankhkare Mentuhotep, there were at least I-III. 3 of them) can be seen in E.A.W. Budge, `By Nile and Tigris', Vol. II, 1920, p. 342 (BM#1203);
[Nov 4, 2009 - Reports that remains of ancient ships were found in 5 caves south of Safaga. Also seals of this Sankhkare M. III were found, as well as wooden boxes covered with gypsum reading, "Wonders of the land of Punt."].
05. The good quality BW image of a sepulchral stela of Thetha, an official under the 11th dyn. ruler Uah-ankh-antef, featuring many hieroglyphic signs can be seen in E.A.W. Budge, `By Nile and Tigris', Vol. II, 1920, p. 363 (BM#614).
06. The good quality BW image of a sepulchral stela of Sebek-aa, overseer of transport under the 11th dynasty featuring some hieroglyphic signs can be seen in E.A.W. Budge, `By Nile and Tigris', Vol. II, 1920, p. 366 (BM#1372).
07. On the subject of `Ameni (var. Amenemhat, Ameniemhat, or Amen) and Mentuhotep as treated in the formative years of archaeology see F.L. Griffith, `Notes on Some Royal Names and Families' in Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archaeology - PSBA, Vol. XIV, Nov 1891 to June 1892, p. 39-44.
08. For a large scale color image of the statue of Mentuhotep II see Bryan Fagan, `Egypt of the Pharaohs', p. 128.
09. The head of an evidently young Theban soldier, one among some 60, thought to have died in 11th dynasty times when war broke out between the rulers of Thebes and Herakleopolis can be seen in `The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt', 2000, p. 151.
10. The funerary stela of the 11th dynasty official Inyotef and his wife Sithathor can be seen in Brian Fagan, Egypt of the Pharaohs, p. 160ff.
11. "In 1911 ... the 11th dynasty tomb of Daga at Thebes was cleared, finding some original colored reliefs and also Coptic inscriptions." "In 1922 work was continued at Lisht and at the Mentuhetep temple of Deir el Bahari, where the foundation deposits were found, with not only samples of material but also tool models. A packet of family letters an accounts of the 11th dynasty were found in the tomb of a retainer." [Ancient Egypt, Sep 1924, p. 93, 94.]
12. Pillar fragments of Intef III were found having been used as cover stones for a gutter at the temple of Sesostris I. Other fragments are those of Intef II or III. See (Werner Kaiser, Günter Dreyer, Robert Gempeler, Peter Grossmann, Gerhard Haeny, Horst Jaritz & Friedrich Junge, `Stadt und Tempel von Elephantine" in Mitteilungen of the DAI, Band 32, 1976, p. 67-112; Tafel 15-(15,16)-32.
13. The 7 inch tall head of a royal statue judged to likely be that of Mentuhotep III. [Henry G. Fischer, The Gallatin Egyptian Collection in The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, Mar 1967, p. 257], once also known as `Neb-hapet-Ra' [PSBA, No. CCV, June 1905, p. 173]. This issue of the Bulletin also shows: a relief of Akhnaton, a black granite piece of a young man with a sidelock, a portrait of Albert Gallatin at nine by J.G. Brown, 1889, the alabaster head of a shawabty figurine, the 10 inch long quartz lion from Gebelein, a rare type stone used to fashion the head of a (12th dyn) royal statue from Tyre, a naos stela showing the 25th dynasty `Pa-inmw' and his father `It' from Memphis, the green steatite kneeling statue of Amenophis III, the exquisite painted limestone shawabty of a chantress named `Ese', the 5 ¼ inch head of Sesostris (III) from the Gallatin collection to be compared with the head of the Carnarvon collection, a side view of a possible 7 ½ inch tall head of Queen Hatshepsut, a 3rd intermediate period block statue of `Iu-it-ef' from the Karnak cache, a statue of the priest overseer `Ameny' reading, "Sobek of Shedyet and Osiris the Sovereign who is in Toshe", a jar of Amenophis II inscribed "Aa-kheperu-Re in Khemenu", Khemenu being apparently the name of a sanctuary.]
14. The Intermediate Periods: Introducing `intermediate' periods into world history, and at that three such periods, is an indication that historians deal with grey areas, that something serious is not the way it should be, and yet they are pushed under the table and treated as if they knew the real history of them. Real history has no such periods. The 1. Intermediate Period is stated to be between 2181-2040 BC, the 2nd between 1782-1570 BC and the 3rd between 1069-525 BC. Just look at the length of each of these periods. Altogether some 897 years are included in these types of periods. A key item which makes history wrong is that absolutely no world history begins until after 2400 BC. Any history before that was totally destroyed by a World Wide Flood. Just look at the stratigraphy of our planet to see that water (technical article translated in German) laid those mighty layers down across the whole planet.
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