Ukhhotep III


Ukhhotep III was an Ancient Egyptian of the Twelfth Dynasty who was a local governor at Cusae. He is mainly known from his decorated tomb chapel at Meir.
The inscriptions in his tomb chapel provide information on his person. His father was a certain Ukhhotep. As mother a woman with the name Heny-hery is mentioned. A high number of women are named in the tomb decoartion but their relation to Ukhhotep is not always clear. Four of them are called his wifeː It, Pepy, Nebkau, Khnumhotep
Ukhhotep bears several titles. He was overseer of priests of Hathor, lady of the two lands, royal sealer, sole friend and mayor.
His tomb chapel consists of an open courtyard, a chapel that is decorated with paintings and an inner chapel that is decorated with paintings too. Two statues showing Ukhhotep and wives come from this tomb and are now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo and in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The tomb was first fully published by Aylward Manley Blackman in 1953, who recorded all tomb scenes in drawings. A second publication appeared in 2022 by Naguib Kanawati, Georgia Barker.

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