Ankhu

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Ankhu was an Egyptian vizier who lived in the 13th Dynasty around 1750 BC.

Ankhu is known from several monuments dating under king Khendjer and Sobekhotep II, attesting that he served several kings. Ankhu appears in Papyrus Boulaq 18 as the head of the court officials. The papyrus is dated under Sobekhotep II. In the papyrus appears the queen Aya. The queen appears also on a stela which shows that she was part of Ankhu's family. A stela found at Abydos reports building works at the Osiris temple. The stela is datable under Khendjer. In the Amun temple at Karnak he placed a statue of himself, of his father and of his mother. The latter one is one of the very few statues belonging to a woman placed in this temple.

Ankhu was the son of a vizier and the father two viziers. The whole family formed a strong dynasty of high court officials.

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• K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), p. 243-45