| Yuny | |
|---|---|
| Viceroy of Kush | |
&sq=&lang=&file=File:KanaisStelaYunyKneelingBeforeSetiI.jpg) Yuny kneeling before Seti I (stela at el-Kanaïs) | |
| Predecessor | Amenemopet |
| Successor | Heqanakht |
| Dynasty | 19th Dynasty |
| Pharaoh | Seti I, Ramesses II |
Yuni served as Head of the-stable-of-Seti-I, Charioteer of His Majesty, and Chief of the Medjay before becoming Viceroy during the reign of Seti I.[1] He would use some of these titles simultaneously. On a stela from Abydos – now in the Cairo Museum (Jd'E 34620) – the inscription reads:
Made by the Superintendent of Deserts in the Southern Foreign country, Viceroy in Nubia (Ta-Sety), Chief of Works in the Estate of Amun, Chief of the Madjayu-militia, Iuny. (Kitchen)[2]
Yuni started the Egyptian building projects at Amara West and Aksha.[3] It was "on his orders that the first blocks of the Abu Simbel temples were cut.[3] Yuny commemorated his work with a rock-cut scene showing himself standing before Ramesses II on the Abu Simbel cliff.[3] After ten years under Ramesses II, Yuny retired from his post in Nubia.[3] He was succeeded by Heqanakht.
- ^ The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 73-88.
- ^ Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
- ^ a b c d Joyce Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, Penguin Books, 2001 paperback, p.167