Ameny (high steward)

Egyptian official

Ameny

High steward

Scarab seal of Ameny

Dynasty| 13th dynasty
Father| Tahaa
Mother| Lady of the House Kemtet

Ameny was an ancient Egyptian official of the 13th Dynasty with the title high steward. In this function he was the main administrator of the royal estates.

## Attestation

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Ameny (PD 98[1]) is known from several stelae,[2] a statue and from scarabs.[3] Ameny's father was a certain Tahaa and his mother the lady of the house Kemtet. Not much is known about them.

### High Steward

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As high steward, Ameny was, after the visier and treasurer, the most important official at the royal court. On some of his monuments, he appears with important ranking titles, such as member of the elite, foremost of action and royal sealer. On one stela in a private collection, he appears next to the treasurer Senebsumai.[4] The latter is well datable into the middle of the 13th Dynasty, also providing a fixed point for the date of Ameny.

## References

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1. ^ "Person PD 98 | Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom".
2. ^ William Kelly Simpson: The Terrace of the Great God at Abydos: The Offerings Chapels of Dynasties 12 and 13, New Haven and Philadelphia, pl. 17 (ANOC 10)
3. ^ G. T. Martin: Egyptian Administrative and Private-Name Seals, principally of the Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, Oxford 1971, nos. 213-214
4. ^ Alessandro Roccati: Quattro Stele del Medio Regno, in Stephen Quirke (editor): Discovering Egypt from the Neva, The Egyptological Legacy of Oleg D Berlev, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-933684-18-8, p. 111-114, pl. 7 online: [1] Archived 2013-06-29 at the Wayback Machine