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Amenhotep (prince)

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Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)

Amenhotep was an ancient Egyptian prince during the 18th Dynasty, son and (possibly) the designated heir of Amenhotep II.

He was a priest of Ptah and is mentioned in an administrative papyrus (now in the British Museum). A stela near the Great Sphinx, showing a priest of Ptah whose name was erased, probably depicts him. It is likely that he died young, for the next pharaoh was his brother Thutmose IV. Amenhotep might have also died from the tenth plague of the Exodus book from the Bible where “all the firstborn in the land of Egypt ” including Amenhotep, but the Israelite firstborn sons didn't.

Sources

  1. Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.137
  2. Dodson–Hilton, pp.137-138
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