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Mentuhotep (II) Nebhetepre (about 2046-1995 BC)

King of the Eleventh Dynasty, and, by his reunification of Egypt, the first king of the Middle Kingdom (about 2025-1700 BC). He restored the unity of Egypt after it had been divided into competing kingdoms in the First Intermediate Period.

Horus name: Zematawy
Nebty name: Zematawy
Golden Falcon name: Qaishuti
Prenomen: Nebhetepre
Nomen: Mentuhotep

 

Burial place: Thebes (Deir el-Bahari)

 

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

Blocks from the mortuary temple of the king in Deir el-Bahari
block from Denderah

Further Attestations:

The king was in later times in Thebes worshipped as god.

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