Djedankhre Montemsaf
Djedankhre Montemsaf was a Thebes, Egypt, Theban king of the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 16th Dynasty based in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1590 BC.Kim Ryholt: ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'', Museum Tusculanum Press, (1997), p. 202 As such, he would have ruled concurrently with the Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 15th Dynasty, which controlled Lower Egypt, Lower and Middle Egypt. Attestations Djedankhre Montemsaf is attested by an inscribed block found in Gebelein, a bronze axe-blade of unknown origin, now in the British Museum, and bearing ''"The good god Djedankhre, given life"'' and finally two scarab seals, also of unknown provenance. Djedankhre Montemsaf is not attested on the surviving fragments of the Turin King List, Turin canon, his reign and those of four other kings of the end of the 16th Dynasty being lost in a Lacuna (manuscripts), lacuna. For this reason, the exact chronological position as well as the l ...
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Steatite
Soapstone (also known as steatite or soaprock) is a talc-schist, which is a type of metamorphic rock. It is composed largely of the magnesium rich mineral talc. It is produced by dynamothermal metamorphism and metasomatism, which occur in the zones where tectonic plates are subducted, changing rocks by heat and pressure, with influx of fluids, but without melting. It has been a medium for carving for thousands of years. Terminology The definitions of the terms "steatite" and "soapstone" vary with the field of study. In geology, steatite is a rock that is to a very large extent composed of talc. The mining industry will define steatite as a high-purity talc rock that is suitable for manufacturing of, for example, insulators, the lesser grades of the mineral can be called simply "talc rock". Steatite can be used both in lumps ("block steatite", "lava steatite", "lava grade talc"), and in the ground form. While the geologists logically will use "steatite" to designate both fo ...
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