| Intef III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Inyotef III, Antef III | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Intef III on the Silsileh petroglyph. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 8 regnal years 2069–2061 BC,[1] 2068—2061BC,[2] 2063–2055 BC,[3][4] 2016–2009 BC[5] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Intef II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Mentuhotep II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Consort | Iah, Henite[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Mentuhotep II,[7] Neferu II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Father | Intef II[7] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Neferu-Khayet[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Burial | Saff tomb in El-Tarif known as Saff el-Baqar. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 11th dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Intef III was the third pharaoh of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt during the late First Intermediate Period in the 21st century BC, at a time when Egypt was divided in two kingdoms. The son of his predecessor Intef II and father of his successor Mentuhotep II,[7] Intef III reigned for 8 years over Upper Egypt and extended his domain North against the 10th Dynasty state, perhaps as far north as the 17th nome. He undertook some building activity on Elephantine.[8] Intef III is buried in a large saff tomb at El-Tarif known as Saff el-Barqa.[9]
- ^ a b c Margaret Bunson: Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Infobase Publishing, 2009, ISBN 978-1438109978, available online, see p. 181
- ^ Redford, Donald B., ed. (2001). "Egyptian King List". The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, Volume 2. Oxford University Press. pp. 626–628. ISBN 978-0-19-510234-5.
- ^ Gae Callender: The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC) in Ian Shaw (editor): The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press (2000), ISBN 9780191604621.
- ^ Michael Rice: Who's Who in Ancient Egypt, Routledge 2001, p. 80, ISBN 978-0415154499
- ^ Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton editors: Ancient Egyptian Chronology, Brill, 2006, p. 491, available online
- ^ a b Peter A. Clayton: Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson 2006, p. 72, ISBN 0-500-28628-0
- ^ a b c Percy Newberry: On the Parentage of the Intef Kings of the Eleventh Dynasty, ZÄS 72 (1936), pp. 118-120
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