Amenhotep II

Amenhotep II (Amenophis) (about 1428-1397 BC)

Important king of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Campaigns attested in Western Asia. Inscriptions for the king emphasise his prowess in archery.

Horus name: Kanakht Werpehti
Nebty name: Weserefausekhaemwaset
Golden Falcon name: Itjiemsekhemefemtawnebu
Prenomen: Aakheperure
Nomen: Amenhotep

Burial place: rock cut tomb in Thebes (Valley of the Kings 35)

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

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Objects from his mortuary temple in Thebes (West)

Further Attestations:

Inscription at a temple at Faras (Nubia) (Karkowski 1981: 276)
Letter to the vice king of Kush on a stela from Semna (Sethe 1955: 1243-1244)
Granite stela fragment from Koptos (Sethe 1955: 1317-1319; Lyon 2000: 73, no. 37)
'Great Sphinx stela' found at Gizeh (Sethe 1955: 1276-1283)
'Small Sphinx stela' found at Gizeh (Sethe 1955: 1283-1286)
Two almost identical stelae found at Amada and Elephantine (Sethe 1955: 1287-1299)
Inscriptions at the temple of Amada (Sethe 1955: 1349-1351)
Stela concerning a Syrian campaign, found at Memphis (Sethe 1955: 1299-1309)
Inscriptions at Luxor (Sethe 1955: 1338-1340)
Blocks found on Elephantine (Sethe 1955: 1360)

Inscriptions and monuments at Karnak:

Stela concerning a Syrian campaign, found at Karnak (Sethe 1955: 1310-1316)
Another stela found at Karnak (Sethe 1955: 1319-1321)
Inscription at the Third Pylon at Karnak (Sethe 1955: 1321-1322)
Calcite shrine in Karnak (Van Siclen III 1986)
Inscriptions on columns (Sethe 1955: 1323-1333)
Different Inscriptions at Karnak (Sethe 1955: 1333-1338, 1341-1342, 1358-1360)

Mentioned in biographies and on monuments of private persons (very selective):

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