Mentuhotep I

Mentuhotep I^[1]
Mentuhotep I
Montuhotep I, Mentuhotep-aa
	Sitting statue of Mentuhotep I from Elephantine, now in Cairo
Pharaoh
Reign	c. 2135 BC
Predecessor	Intef the Elder
Successor	Intef I
Horus name
Horus name
	Hor Tepia ; Ḥr.(w)-tp [j] ˁ ; Horus the ancestor
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Nomen
Consort	Queen Neferu I
Children	Intef I ? Intef II ?
Father	possibly Intef the Elder
Dynasty	11th dynasty

Mentuhotep I (also Mentuhotep-aa, i.e. "the Great"^[3]) may have been a Theban nomarch and independent ruler of Upper Egypt during the early First Intermediate Period. Alternatively, Mentuhotep I may be a fictional figure created during the later Eleventh Dynasty, which rose to prominence under Intef II and Mentuhotep II, playing the role of a founding father.

^ Annales du Service des Antiquités de l´Egypt Le Caire. Nr. 55, 1900, p. 178.
^ Clayton, Peter A. Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p72. 2006. ISBN 0-500-28628-0
^ Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology and Society, Duckworth Egyptology, London 2006, ISBN 978-0715634356, pp. 10–11

[1] Annales du Service des Antiquités de l´Egypt Le Caire. Nr. 55, 1900, p. 178.

[2] Clayton, Peter A. Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p72. 2006. ISBN 0-500-28628-0

[3] Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt: History, Archaeology and Society, Duckworth Egyptology, London 2006, ISBN 978-0715634356, pp. 10–11

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