Episode 33: Revivals and Regencies

Amenemhat I (Part II): Father and Son.

Amenemhat is a man of innovation and change. Having secured his rule over the Two Lands, he establishes a new capital city: Itj-tawy Amenemhat, a.k.a. “Amenemhat seizes the Two Lands.” Talk about aggressive branding!

Amenemhat I

• Overview of reign and records at SLU.edu.
• Overview of records at UCL.
• Detailed summary of reign at Wikipedia.

Names and Titles

• Horus: Wehemmesut (Seheteptawy)
• Two Ladies: Wehemmesut (Seheteptawy)
• Golden Horus: Wehemmesut (Zema)
• Throne name/Prenomen: Se-hetep-ib-Re
• Personal name/Nomen: Amun-em-hat (Amenemhat)

Wives

• Neferitatenen. Mother of Senuseret I.
• Dedet (uncertain).

Monuments

• Residence city of Itj-Tawy (location unknown).
• Pyramid complex at al-Lisht, Wikimedia.

Texts

• The “Prophecy of Neferty,” at UCL.
• The “Instructions of Amenemhat,” at UCL. Later versions at Wikimedia.

Images

• Collected images of Amenemhat I at Wikimedia.
• Miscellaneous objects and art of Amenemhat I at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Twelfth Dynasty

• Summary at Wikipedia.
• Summary at ancient-egypt.org.
• List of Kings (Dynasties 11 and 12) at UCL.
• History: The Twelfth Dynasty’s rise to power in Lisa K. Sabbahy, Kingship, Power, and Legitimacy in Ancient Egypt, 2020. Cambridge University Press.
• History: Late Middle Kingdom at UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology.
• Family tree at Wikipedia, based on Dodson and Hilton, Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004.