Heqaib III

Heqaib in hieroglyphs

Heqaib (III) was an Ancient Egyptian local governor at Elephantine. He lived at the end of the 12th dynasty around 1800 BC. He hold the titles governor and overseer of priests of Khnum, lord of the cataracts.

Heqaib was the son of a woman called Sat-tjeni and was perhaps the brother of Amenyseneb who followed him in the office of the local governor, both men have a woman called Sat-tjeni as mother.^[1] Heqaib is mainly known from a statue dedicate by him into the local sanctuary of his distant predecessor Heqaib at Elephantine. The statue shows him kneeling with a vessel in each hand.^[2] Recently his tomb was discovered at Qubbet el-Hawa, with a painted coffin and the remains of a funerary mask.^[3]

References

1. ↑ Detlef Franke: Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine, Heidelberg 1994, ISBN 3-927552-17-8, p. 42
2. ↑ Labib Habachi: Elephantine IV, The Sanctuary of Heqaib, Main Am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0496-X p. 57-58, no. 31
3. ↑ La Universidad de Jaen comienza en febrero su sexta campaña arqueológica en Asuán (Egipto)