Amenhotep was an

ancient Egypt Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower E ...

ian high steward in office during the reign of Queen

Hatshepsut Hatshepsut ( ; BC) was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from until (Low Chronology) and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II. She was Egypt's second c ...

. He is mainly known from his tomb and from a series of rock-cut inscriptions in the

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region. From both sources it is clear that he was responsible for the erection of two

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s of the queen in Karnak in the 16th year of her reign. The obelisks are depicted in his Theban tomb chapel ( TT73). Related to this work he bears the title ''overseer of the work of the two big obelisks in the temple of Amun''. In the rock-cut inscriptions in the Aswan region (where the stone for the obelisks was quarried), he appears also with the titles of a high priest of the local deities

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and

Anuket Anuket was the ancient Egyptian goddess of the cataracts of the Nile and Lower Nubia in general, worshipped especially at Elephantine near the First Cataract. Etymology In ancient Egyptian, she was known as Anuket, Anaka, or Anqet. Her name ...

.JJ Shirley: ''The Power of the Elite: The Officials of Hatshepsut's Regency and Coregency'', in: J. Galán, B. M. Bryan, P. F. Dorman (eds.): ''Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut'', Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 69, Chicago 2014, , pp. 205-208.

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