Ameny (high steward)

Ameny was an ancient Egyptian official of the 13th Dynasty with the title high steward. In this function he was the main administrator of the royal estates.

Ameny
High steward
Scarab seal of Ameny
Dynasty13th dynasty
FatherTahaa
MotherLady of the House Kemtet

Attestation

Ameny is known from several stelae,[1] a statue and from scarabs.[2] Ameny's father was a certain Tahaa and his mother the lady of the house Kemtet. Not much is known about them. As high steward Ameny was after the visier and treasurer the most important official at the royal court. On some of his monuments he appears with important ranking titles, such as member of the elite, foremost of action and royal sealer. On one stela in a private collection he appears next to the treasurer Senebsumai.[3] The latter is well datable into the middle of the 13th Dynasty also providing a fixpoint for the date of Ameny.

References
  1. William Kelly Simpson: The Terrace of the Great God at Abydos: The Offerings Chapels of Dynasties 12 and 13, New Haven and Philadelphia, pl. 17 (ANOC 10)
  2. G. T. Martin: Egyptian Administrative and Private-Name Seals, principally of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, Oxford 1971, nos. 213-214
  3. Alessandro Roccati: Quattro Stele del Medio Regno, in Stephen Quirke (editor): Discovering Egypt from the Neva, The Egyptological Legacy of Oleg D Berlev, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-933684-18-8, p. 111-114, pl. 7 online: Archived 2013-06-29 at the Wayback Machine
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