Montuhotep II (Part I): Monuments at Thebes.
The First Intermediate Period is coming to an end, with the House of Intef victorious in their war to reunify the kingdom. The North has been conquered, internal peace returns.
Montuhotep II, now King of Upper and Lower Egypt, immediately takes a thought for his eternal burial. To commemorate his achievements he expands his Mortuary Temple, already under construction west of Thebes. The Eleventh Dynasty temple at Deir el-Bahari is a fascinating monument, that will greatly influence royal funerary temples right into the New Kingdom.
Montuhotep II
- Records and associated individuals at SLU.edu.
- Records and monuments at UCL.
- Detailed summary of reign at Wikipedia.
- Summary of 11th Dynasty at ancient-egypt.org.
Royal Names/Titles
- Horus: Djematawy
- Two Ladies: Djematawy
- Golden Horus: Qaishuti
- Throne name/prenomen: Neb-hepet-re
- Personal name/nomen: Montu-hotep
Family Tree
- Family tree at Wikimedia.
- See also Dodson and Hilton, Complete Royal Families, 2004.
Monuments
- The Memorial Temple at Deir el-Bahari, Wikimedia.
- Edouard Naville, The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, 3 vols, via Internet Archive (vol. 1), (vol. 2), (vol. 3).
- Miscellaneous monuments, statues, and art of Montuhotep II at Wikimedia.
- Painted relief of Montuhotep II and Hathor, Flickr.
Images
- Painted portrait of Montuhotep II, Wikimedia.
- Statues of Montuhotep II at Flickr and Wikimedia.
- The Memorial Temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari, Wikimedia.
- Montuhotep receives offerings, Wikimedia.
Bibliography
- Dorothea Arnold, “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 1991.
- Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I – Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, 2008.
- Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006.
- Nicolas Grimal, A History of Egypt, 1994.
- PETER JÁNOSI, “Montuhotep-Nebtawyre and Amenemhat I: Observations on the Early Twelfth Dynasty in Egypt.” Metropolitan Museum Journal 45 (2010): 7–20. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41558050.
- Edouard Naville, The XIth Dynasty Temple at Deir el-Bahari, 3 vols, via Internet Archive (vol. 1), (vol. 2), (vol. 3).
- Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 1997/2008.
- Ian Shaw (editor), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 2004.
