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In the top register a desert hunt is shown. On the same wall, Khumhotep I is again shown watching men working in the marshes. The east wall is fully dedicated to battle scenes. There is shown a siege of a fortress or town. There are fighting soldiers and wrestlers. The South wall is not well preserved and shows once
Khnunhotep sitting and watching people and work as well as musicians playing music for him. A second time he is standing and is watching peasants working in the marshes.
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His tomb (no. 14) at Beni Hasan consists of a single rock cut offering chapel with two columns. The columns are gone by now. The walls of the chapel are painted although the paintings are today heavily faded. Within the chapel there are two shafts leading down to burial chambers, only one of them was
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Khnumhotep I is depicted. Especially the scene with the family members is much faded so that not all names are preserved. The North wall shows Khnumhotep I and his wife Zatipy standing in front of an offering table. In front of them in five registers are workmen at different tasks.
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Khnumhotep's tomb is known that early in his career he accompanied Amenemhat I in a military expedition aimed to expel a foe from Egypt. The name of this enemy is deliberately omitted in order to prevent his unintended “immortality”, but was undoubtedly one of Amenemhat's
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finished. The west wall of the offering chapel, south of the entrance shows a long biographical inscription that is an important historical document. Under the inscription
Khnumhotep I is shown on a boat hunting in the marshes. North of the entrance on the same wall is a
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who was his main wife. Lesser wives were Herit and Heryib. From a fourth wife, the name is not preserved. After
Khunmhotep's death, his titles passed to his son Nakht, then to a seemingly unrelated man called
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Khnumhotep's mother was a lady called Baqet whilst his father's name is unknown. His family apparently replaced an earlier family of nomarchs who were active at Men'at Khufu during the second part of the
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and then again to one of his relatives, Netjernakht. Khnumhotep I also had a daughter, Baqet, herself mother of the aforementioned
Khnumhotep II who inherited the title of nomarch after Netjernakht. See
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Khnumhotep I is the earliest known member of a powerful family of nomarchs and officials, housed in
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