Djehutyemhat

Djehutyemhat
Djehutyemhat
	Thotemhat
	Statue of the priest Tjanhesret, bearing the cartouches of Djehutyemhat. Cairo Museum, CG 42212.
King of Hermopolis
Reign	c. 725 - 710 BCE[1]
Predecessor	Nimlot[1]
Successor	Pedinemty?
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Neferkheperre Khaikhau; Nfr-ḫpr-Rˁ-ḫˁj-ḫˁ(w); Perfect is the manifestation of Ra, with shiny crown/appearance
Nomen
	Djehutyemhat; Ḏḥwtj m ḥ3t; Thoth is in the front
	;
Horus name
	Khaiemwenet; Ḫˁj-m-Wn(t); He who appears in Wenet[note 1]

Djehutyemhat,[2] or Thotemhat,[3] was an ancient Egyptian ruler ("king") of Hermopolis during the 25th Dynasty.

Biography

Like his probable predecessor Nimlot, he proclaimed himself king, adopting the full royal titulary although he was no more than a governor of Hermopolis and a vassal of the Kushite 25th Dynasty. His cartouches appear carved on the shoulders of a damaged block statue depicting the priest Tjanhesret, found in Luxor in 1909 and now in the Cairo Museum (CG 42212), and on a bronze naos-shaped amulet of Amun-Ra of unknown provenance – possibly from Thebes – and now in the British Museum (EA11015).[3][4][5] The only known depiction of the king is found on a votive scribal pallet now in the collection of the Egypt Centre of Swansea University.[2]

British Egyptologist Kenneth Kitchen has suggested that the successor of Djehutyemhat could have been the poorly known "king" Pedinemty.[6]

Notes

Wenet was the 15th district of Upper Egypt, with Hermopolis as capital.

References

Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, ISBN 0-85668-298-5, table 16B
Troy Leiland Sagrillo. 2017. “King Djeḥuty-em-ḥat in Swansea: Three model scribal palettes in the collection of the Egypt Centre of Swansea University.” In A true scribe of Abydos: Essays on first millennium Egypt in honour of Anthony Leahy, edited by Claus Jurman, B. Bader, and David A. Aston. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 265. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters. 385-414.
Spencer, P.A. & Spencer, A.J. (1986), "Notes on Late Libyan Period", JEA 72, pp. 198–201
Kitchen, op. cit., § 109; 331
The bronze naos-shaped amulet EA11015 at the British Museum.
Kitchen, op. cit., § 525

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[2] Wenet was the 15th district of Upper Egypt, with Hermopolis as capital.

[KT16-1] Kenneth Kitchen, The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC), 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, ISBN 0-85668-298-5, table 16B

[Sagrillo-3] Troy Leiland Sagrillo. 2017. “King Djeḥuty-em-ḥat in Swansea: Three model scribal palettes in the collection of the Egypt Centre of Swansea University.” In A true scribe of Abydos: Essays on first millennium Egypt in honour of Anthony Leahy, edited by Claus Jurman, B. Bader, and David A. Aston. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 265. Leuven: Uitgeverij Peeters. 385-414.

[jea-4] Spencer, P.A. & Spencer, A.J. (1986), "Notes on Late Libyan Period", JEA 72, pp. 198–201

[5] Kitchen, op. cit., § 109; 331

[6] The bronze naos-shaped amulet EA11015 at the British Museum.

[7] Kitchen, op. cit., § 525