Mentuhotep IV (Nebtawyre)

Mentuhotep IV (Nebtawyre) in Tour Egypt

MENTUHOTEP IV NEBTAWYRE THE LAST KING OF EGYPT'S 11TH DYNASTY by Jimmy Dunn. Though Mentuhotep III Sankhkare (Mentuhotep II in a number of texts) is said by both the Saqqara and Abydos king lists as being the last of the 11th Dynasty rulers, followed immediately by Amenemhet I who founded the 12th Dynasty, the fragmentary papyrus known as the Roy...

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Mentuhotep IV in Wikipedia

Nebtawyre Mentuhotep IV was the last king of the 11th Dynasty. He seems to fit into a 7 year period in the Turin Canon for which there is no recorded king, and is known from a few inscriptions in Wadi Hammamat that record expeditions to the Red Sea coast and to quarry stone for the royal monuments. Despite being obscure (he is absent from the off...

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