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Attribution: Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
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The text
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| 1 | THE NOMARCH, INTEF |
| 2 | MORTUARY STELA® |
| 3 | 419. The Karnak list places as first of the Intefs a |
| 4 | nomarch, without royal title. He is the founder of the |
| 5 | Theban line, and is so recognized by Sesostris I, who dedi- |
| 6 | cated a statue to him in Karnak with the inscription: “The |
| 7 | king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Kheperkere (Sesostris I); |
| 8 | he made it as his monument for his father, the hereditary |
| 9 | prince (rp ty), Intefo, . ......... born of ITkui (Ykwy).”d |
| 10 | The following mortuary stela probably belonged to him. |
| 11 | 420. At the top is a three-line inscription, beginning |
| 12 | with the usual mortuary formula, for the benefit of |
| 13 | The hereditary prince, count, great lord of the Theban nome, satis- |
| 14 | fying the king as keeper of the Door® of the South, great pillar of him,f |
| 15 | who makes his Two Lands to live, superior prophet,. ........ Intef. |
| 16 | 2Limestone stela, discovered by Mariette, in Drah abu->n-Neggah, now in Cairo, |
| 17 | Cat. 20009; also published by him in Monuments Divers, 50, b, and p. 16; also |
| 18 | Maspero, Guide, pl. and p. 34; Dawn, 115; Petrie, History of Egypt, 1, 126. |
| 19 | bLepsius, Auswahl der wichtigsten Urkunden, I. (See § 417, note.) |
| 20 | ¢The family came from Hermonthis, where they were nomarchs. Inscriptions |
| 21 | from the tomb of an Intef, one of these nomarchs, are in Copenhagen and Berlin |
| 22 | (No 13272; see Lange, Zeitschrift fiir agyptische Sprache, 34, 25-35, and plate). |
| 23 | dDjscovered by Legrain, in March, 189g (Recueil, XXII, 64). The addition |
| 24 | of ⲟ (9), “great,” is not found in the royal list of Karnak with the name of the |
| 25 | Rp ty Intef; but as there is only one rp" #y in the Karnak list, the two must be |
| 26 | identical. |
| 27 | eSee Piehl, Zeitschrift fir dgyptische Sprache, 1887, 35, and Brugsch, bid., |
| 28 | 1884, 93 f. The title continued from the Sixth Dynasty, into Saite times (IV, 905). |
| 29 | fThis participial epithet is usually applied to Intef, but this is impossible; |
| 30 | for Intef, who acknowledges a king in the phrase, “satisfying the king,” cannot |
| 31 | speak of himself, a mere nomarch, as “making his two lands live” Nor can |
| 32 | “two lands,” so commonly in parallelism with the title “King of Upper and Lower |
| 33 | Egypt,” be made to mean the two shores of the river in Intef’s nome. Compare, |
| 34 | e.g, §441,1.8. S-cuptowy is an epithet, like §°mnukh-sw, designating the |
| 35 | king. It is in excellent parallelism with “king,” and indeed serves as king |
| 36 | Senekhkere’s Horus-name. This Intef therefore ruled before the rebellion against |
| 37 | the North, and the “king” referred to is an Heracleopolitan. |
| 38 | 198 |
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- Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef
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- Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
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- Ancient Egyptian/Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I- The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef/10.1._The_Eleventh_Dynasty_-_The_Nomarch_Intef.ocr.L0.txt
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Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef. OCR (tools/batch_ocr.py, model coptic+eng) of Volume I-1/10.1. The Eleventh Dynasty - The Nomarch, Intef.pdf; page files: L0/ocr/Volume_I-1/10.1._The_Eleventh_Dynasty_-_The_Nomarch_Intef/pages. Layers as published by the Kemetic project (Yousef Hanna), 2026: Coptic · Cairene · Kemetic, /doc/ancient-egyptian/breasted-ancient-records-of-egypt-1906-vol.i-the-eleventh-dynasty-the-nomarch-intef/10.1.the-eleventh-dynasty-the-nomarch-intef.ocr/. Breasted – Ancient Records of Egypt (1906), vol. I: The Eleventh Dynasty – The Nomarch Intef; public domain in Canada (death year verified: Breasted d.1935 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Henry_Breasted)); OCR text by the Kemetic project, Yousef Hanna 2026.
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