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who's who of viziers in the middle kingdom

Compiled by Charles Woods
11TH DYNASTY - CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
 
Name: BEBI c.2055 -
Position time of Montuhotep II c.2055-2044 (DBXI.14 Deir el-Bahari)
Titles Vizier. Dignitary of the Curtain

Name: DAGI c.2055-2044
Position time of Montuhotep II c 2055-2044 (DBXI.14 Deir el-Bahari)
Tomb (TT103 Sheikh abd el-Qurna )
Titles Vizier. Overseer of the Pyramid. Dignitary of the Curtain. Chancellor, royal Treasurer, Superintendent of the Pyramid City

Name: IPI c.2044-
Position the time of Montuhotep III c.2044-1992
Tomb (TT315 Deir el-Bahari)
Titles Vizier. Governor of the town. Judge.

Name: AMENEMHET c.1992-1984
Position time of Montuhotep IV c. 1992-1984
Titles Vizier. Prince. Count.
Special Notes Became Amenemhet I on death of Montuhotep IV. Amenemhet built a pyramid for himself at El.-Lisht No.L.LX..
 

12TH DYNASTY

Name: ANTEFOQER (alt. Antefoker/Intefoker) c. 1985-1960
Tomb (TT60 Sheikh abd el-Qurna)
Father/Mother Senet – Buried Sheikh abd el-Qurna in TT60
Titles Vizier
Special Notes Vizier to Amenemhet I and Senwosret I .(Stone pyramid L.LXI Lisht).


Name: AHANAKHT. c.1965-1920
Position time of Senwosret I c.1965-1920 (Stone pyramid L.LXI Lisht)
Titles Vizier
Special Note Pyramid at el.Lisht.


Name: MONTUHOTEP c.1965-1920
Position time of Senwosret I c.1965-1920 (Stone pyramid L.LXI Lisht)
Titles Vizier
 
Name: AMENY. (alt.Ameni) c.1922-1878
Position time of Amenemhet II c.1922-1878 (Stone pyramid Dahshur L.LI)
Titles Vizier
 
Name: AMENY II
Titles Vizier
Special Note listed on London College Digitalegypt website

 

Name: SENWOSRET c 1922-1878
Position time of Amenemhet II c 1922-1878 (Stone pyramid Dahshur L.LI)
Titles Vizier


Name: SIESE. c.1922-1878
Position time of Amenemhet II c.1922-1878 (Stone Pyramid Dahshur L.LI)
Titles Vizier


Name: SOBEKEMHAT c. 1874-1855
Position time of Senwosret III c.1874-1878 (Brick pyramid Dahshur L.XLVII)
Titles Vizier

Name: NEB-IT c.1874-1855
Position time of Senwosret III c.1874-1878 (Brick pyramid Dahshur L.XLVII)
Titles Vizier


Name: KHNUMHOTEP c.1874-1855
Position time of Senwosret III c.1874-1878 (Brick pyramid Dahshur L.XLVII)
Tomb (Beni Hasan Tomb 3)
Titles Vizier. High Steward.
 
Name: AMENY III
Titles Vizier
Special Note listed on London College Digitalegypt website


Name: KHETI c.1855-1808
Position time of Amenemhet III, c1855-1808 ( Unused Brick pyramid Dahshur L.LVIII)
Titles Vizier

Name: ZAMONTH c.1855-1808
Position time of Amenemhet III c.1855-1808 (unused Brick pyramid Dahshur L.LVIII)
 
Viziers 13th dynasty through to start of 18th Dynasty – New Kingdom.

 

Name: ANKHU (alt. Khenmes) c.1750-1725
Position time of Sobekhotep III (c.1750?) and Sobekhotep IV (c.1750-1725?)
Wife Mereryet.
Father/Mother Poss. son of a Vizier Montuhotep. Mother: Possibly Henwetipu. (Possibly identified from a statue in Cairo (42034).
Sons Vizier Ressonbe and Iymeru. Son-in-law: Upwowethotep.
Titles Vizier.
Special note Identified from statue in Cairo 42034 and Stela in Cairo CG20690.


Name: RESSONEB c.1750-1725?
Position Time of Sobekhotep IV (c1750-1725?)
Father/Mother Father Vizier Ankhu. Mother: Mereryet
Titles Vizier.
Special Note Identified from a Stela in Cairo CG20690


Name: ***IYMERU I (alt. Imeru, Li-meru, and Neferkare-Iymeru) c.1750-1725?
Position Time of Sobekhotep IV (c1750-1725?)
Father/Mother Father Vizier Ankhu. Mother: Mereryet.
Titles Vizier
Special Note identified from a Stela in Cairo CG20690 and statuette in Turin No: 1220.


Name: IYMERU (alt. Imeru) c.1750-1725.
Position time of Sobekhotep IV (c.2750-1725?)
Father/Mother Father Vizier Iymeru I.
Grandfather/Grandmother Vizier Ankhu, and grandmother Mereryet.
Titles Vizier. Khrp-wskht.
Special Note Known from a statue in Heidelberg No: 274.

Name: ***AY.
Special note Vizier and Town Mayor of El-Kab and is father of Iymeru III.
Iymeru III, son of Ay the Vizier and town mayor of el-Kab. However, either of these may be the same as Iymeru I known as Neferkare-Iymeru the Vizier to Sobekhotep IV. And marked ***
 
Name: YUY
Special Note Possibly a Vizier from end of 13th dynasty found in a pit tomb in Deir el-Bahari.

 

The following is a list of Viziers not itemized above, but are recorded by London College on Digital Egypt and range from the end of the 12th and 13th dynasties through to the start of the 18th dynasty:
 

Qemeni
Senusretankh
Iuii
Minhotep
Nebsumenu ?
Hori
Sobek-aa Bebi
Ameni
Dedu-Month Senebtifi
Ded-Ptah Dedtu-Seneb
Iii
Iii-meru
Sebebhenaf
Sobknakht
Ib-jau
Amenemhat,

The following is a summary of our main sources:

Michael Rice. “Who’s Who in Ancient Egypt’, Routledge, ISBN 0-415-15449-9
Aidan Dodson: “Monarchs of the Nile” The American University in Cairo Press:ISBN 977-424-600-4
Nicolas Grimal “A History of Ancient Egypt”, Blackwell, ISBN 0-631-19396-0
Donald B. Redford. “Egypt Canaan and Israel in Ancient Times, The American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 977-424-322-6.
London College. http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/administration/viziers.html