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Dagi was an 
File:TT103.jpg, Plan of Dagi's tomb, TT103
File:Relief with two officials or sons of the Vizier Dagi MET DP322062.jpg, Relief fragment from T103 depicting two officials or sons of Dagi in a kneeling position
File:Relief fragment showing a pile of offerings and part of an offering list MET 12.180.245 3162.jpg, Relief fragment from TT103 depicting a pile of offerings and part of an offering list
ancient Egypt
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ian vizier
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during the reign of pharaoh Mentuhotep II
Mentuhotep II (, meaning "Mentu is satisfied"), also known under his Prenomen (Ancient Egypt), prenomen Nebhepetre (, meaning "The Lord of the rudder is Ra"), was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, the sixth ruler of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt, Elev ...
of the Eleventh Dynasty
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Dagi is mainly known from his tomb in Western Thebes (TT103
TT1 is the burial place of the ancient Egyptian official Sennedjem and members of his family in Deir el-Medina, on the west bank of the Nile opposite Luxor. The funerary complex consists of three pyramid-shaped chapels dedicated to, from south t ...
), which was once decorated with paintings and reliefs. From the reliefs only small fragments were found while there are some substantial remains of the paintings. In the tomb decoration he appears with the titles of a vizier. In the tomb was also found his decorated sarcophagus (now in the Cairo Egyptian Museum
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) on which he appears with the title ''overseer of the gateway''. This was his office most likely before he became vizier. His name and these titles also appear on reliefs found in the mortuary temple of Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari. These fragments provide the evidence that he was in office under this king.
Literature
* James P. Allen: ''The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom.'' In: N. Strudwick, J. Taylor (Hrsg.): ''The Theban Necropolis.'' London 2003, p. 22 *Wolfram Grajetzki: ''Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom'', London 2009 p. 26 *{{Citation , last=Martín García de la Cruz , first=Andrés , title=Estudio diacrónico de la tumba del visir Dagi (TT 103) , url=https://www.aedeweb.com/assets/Estudio-diacronico.pdf , language=Spanish, work=BAEDE , issue=29 , pages=49-76 , publication-date=2020 , issn=1131-6780 Viziers of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt Year of birth missing Year of death missing