Zamonth

Zamonth or Samont (son of Monthu) was an Ancient Egyptian vizier who was in office at the end of the Twelfth Dynasty, around 1800 BC.

Zamonth is known from a stela, showing him sitting in front of an offering table. The stela is now on display in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo. The mother of Zamonth is a woman called Zatip. A mouth of Nekhen Zamonth with the same mother is known from several rock inscriptions in Lower Nubia. They date to the years 6 and 9 of king Amenemhat III and report a small military campaign against Nubia. It seems likely that both sources refer to the same person, the Nubian inscriptions belong to the time before he was promoted to the position of a vizier. ^[1]

An offering chapel of Senwosret (Vienna AS 198), a reporter of the vizier, may belong to a servant of Zamonth. ^[2] A person with the same name and title is mentioned on the Stela in Cairo (CG 20102).

Family

Zamont was married to a lady named Henutpu. Children include:

Senebtifi. The stela of Zamonth shows his son standing opposite him. The inscriptions identify him as the royal sealer and priest of Amun Senebtifi.^[1]
Ankhu, the famous vizier, may have been a son of Zamonth. The wife of Zamonth is called Henutpu, the mother of Ankhu has the same name. It is known that Ankhu was the son of a vizier.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Wolfram Grajetzki: Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, London 2009 p. 36, pl. 3 ISBN 9780715637456
^ D. Franke, in: Jan Assmann, Sibylle Meyer (editirs): Egypt, temple of the whole world, Brill, 2003, ISBN 9004132406 pp. 104-105

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