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Khnumhotep II

19th century BCE · 19th century BCE

Khnumhotep II was a nomarch of the Oryx nome in Middle Egypt under the Twelfth Dynasty kings Amenemhat II and Senusret II. His decorated tomb at Beni Hasan records his family's history and shows a caravan of Asiatic traders led by a chieftain named Abisha. It is one of the finest provincial tombs of the Middle Kingdom.

Khnumhotep II
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