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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. ==Rock inscriptions== He 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. It seems that he was a son of his predecessor. Also, he is attested by the inscriptions at Wadi el-Hudi, under the leadership of vizier Antef.〔A. Fakhry: ''The Inscriptions of the Amethyst Quarries at Wadi el Hudi.'' #1 to 4.〕 Another relevant inscription is found in Ain Sukhna.〔M. Abd el-Raziq et al.: ''Les Inscriptions d'Ayn Soukhna.'' # 4a und 4b.〕 These locations were the usual staging harbours for the expeditions to the Sinai. Despite Mentuhotep's obscurity (he is absent from the official king lists in Abydos), the inscriptions show the organization and makeup of a large expedition during his reign. The leader of an expedition to Wadi Hammamat, during the second year of Mentuhotep IV’s reign, was his vizier, Amenemhat, who is assumed to be the future king Amenemhat I, the first king of the 12th Dynasty, and Mentuhotep's immediate successor. A fragment of a slate bowl had been found at Lisht North that is inscribed on the outside with the official titulary of Mentuhotep IV, and on the inside with that of King Amenemhat I, his successor. Since the two inscriptions are incised in a different style of writing, according to Dorothea Arnold, this indicates that Amenemhat had his name added to an older vessel that already bore the name of Mentuhotep IV.〔Dorothea Arnold, (''Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes.'' ) Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. 26 (1991)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mentuhotep IV」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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