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Intef the Elder
| Intef the Elder | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Intef the Great (Intef-aa), Intef born of Iku | ||||||||||||||||||||
![Intef the Elder seated (center), on what is perhaps his funerary stele CG 20009.[1]](view.php?q=Intef_the_Elder&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Cairo,_Egyptian_Museum,_Antiquities,_photo_15_of_97_-_Archivio_fotografico_Museo_Egizio,_Turin_Album3_014_crop.jpg) Intef the Elder seated (center), on what is perhaps his funerary stele CG 20009.[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 22nd century BC | |||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Mentuhotep I? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | possibly Mentuhotep I | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Iku(i)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Burial | uncertain, possibly a tomb at Dra' Abu el-Naga' | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 11th Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||
Intef, whose name is commonly accompanied by epithets such as the Elder, the Great (= Intef-aa) or born of Iku, was a Theban nomarch during the First Intermediate Period c. 2150 BC and later considered a founding figure of the 11th Dynasty, which eventually reunified Egypt.[3]
- ^ Flinders Petrie: A History of Egypt - vol 1 - From the Earliest Times to the XVIth Dynasty (1897), available copyright-free here, p. 126, f. 77
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
beckerathwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 141-142
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