Intef the Elder

Intef the Elder
Intef the Elder
Intef the Great (Intef-aa), Intef born of Iku
	Intef the Elder seated (center), on what is perhaps his funerary stele CG 20009.
Pharaoh
	Theban nomarch
Reign	22nd century BC
Successor	Mentuhotep I?
Iry-pat Hat Intef; Iry-pˁt ḥ3t in-it.f; Hereditary Prince Intef (litt. His father brought him); ; Hieroglyphic variant:;
Iry-pat Hat Intef; Iry-pˁt ḥ3t in-it.f; Hereditary Prince Intef (litt. His father brought him); ; Hieroglyphic variant:;
Children	possibly Mentuhotep I
Mother	Iku(i)
Burial	uncertain, possibly a tomb at Dra' Abu el-Naga'
Dynasty	11th Dynasty

Intef, whose name is commonly accompanied by epithets such as the Elder, the Great (= Intef-aa) or born of Iku, was a Theban nomarch during the First Intermediate Period c. 2150 BC and later considered a founding figure of the 11th Dynasty, which eventually reunified Egypt.^[3]

^ Flinders Petrie: A History of Egypt - vol 1 - From the Earliest Times to the XVIth Dynasty (1897), available copyright-free here, p. 126, f. 77
^ Cite error: The named reference beckerath was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^ Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 141-142

[petrie-1] Flinders Petrie: A History of Egypt - vol 1 - From the Earliest Times to the XVIth Dynasty (1897), available copyright-free here, p. 126, f. 77

[beckerath-2] Cite error: The named reference beckerath was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[encyclo-3] Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey International, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9, 2008, p. 141-142

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