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Minmontu ''(mn.w-mnṯ.w)'' was a High Priest of Amun from the time of Ahmose I ( 18th Dynasty). Minmontu is known from a funerary cone (UC37666) from Thebes, now at University College London. A heart scarab of Minmontu called Senres is in the collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum.


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During an excavation campaign in 2005, about 250 funerary cones were found that
archaeologists Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...
assigned to Minmontu, the High Priest of Amun during the reign of Amenophis I. The cones were found in the forecourt of tomb TT232, which can be identified as his tomb.


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14th-century BC clergy Priests of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Theban High Priests of Amun {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub