Anhotep

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Anhotep
Viceroy of Kush
Predecessor Setau?
Successor Mernudjem?
Dynasty 19th Dynasty
Pharaoh Ramesses II
Wife Hunuro
Burial TT300 in Thebes

Anhotep was Viceroy of Kush, Governor of the South Lands, Scribe of the Tables of the Two Lands during the reign of Ramesses II. His wife was named Hunuro. Anhotep's tomb is TT300 in Dra' Abu el-Naga. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
  2. Labib Habachi, Miscellanea on Viceroys of Kush and their Assistants Buried in Draʿ Abu El-Naga', South, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 13, (1976), pp. 113-116, JSTOR