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Description: | 2 pieces of sarcophagus which do not fit together. They belong to Amenhotep Son of Hapu. His titles are shown and iitles include: 'commander of the army'; fan bearer on the right side of the king; Overseer of the two granaries of Upper and Lower Egypt; Hereditary Noble. The material is spotted black granite. Purchased by Wellcome from the Rustafjaell collection auctioned in 1906. Amenhotep Son of Hapu was an Egyptian saint. he was born in 1430 BC and became scribe and royal architect. He died in his 80s and was buried in a rock cut tomb in western Thebes. After his death he was revered for his wisdom and from the Late Period was worshipped as a god of medicine. The coffin is similar in style to that of Merymose, Amenhotep III's viceroy of Nubia which is now in the British Museum. See Varille, A., 1968. 'Inscriptions concernant l'architecte Amenhotep fils de Hapou' (IFAO Cairo). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 1390 B.C.-1352 B.C.
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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