Yuny_(viceroy_of_Kush)

Yuny (viceroy of Kush)

Yuny (viceroy of Kush)

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Yuni served as Head of the-stable-of-Seti-I, Charioteer of His Majesty, and Chief of the Medjay before becoming Viceroy during the reign of Seti I.[1] He would use some of these titles simultaneously. On a stela from Abydos – now in the Cairo Museum (Jd'E 34620) – the inscription reads:

Made by the Superintendent of Deserts in the Southern Foreign country, Viceroy in Nubia (Ta-Sety), Chief of Works in the Estate of Amun, Chief of the Madjayu-militia, Iuny. (Kitchen)[2]

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Yuni started the Egyptian building projects at Amara West and Aksha.[3] It was "on his orders that the first blocks of the Abu Simbel temples were cut.[3] Yuny commemorated his work with a rock-cut scene showing himself standing before Ramesses II on the Abu Simbel cliff.[3] After ten years under Ramesses II, Yuny retired from his post in Nubia.[3] He was succeeded by Heqanakht.

Monuments

  • Abydos stela (Cairo JdE 34620) Yuny is shown adoring the Abydos Triad consisting of Osiris, Isis and Horus.[2]
  • Abu Simbel Rock Stela No.10 The Viceroy Yuny appears before Pharaoh Ramesses II, who is seated on a throne.[2]
  • Rock stela at al-Kanāʾis (el-Kanaïs) The Viceroy Yuny is kneeling before Pharaoh Seti I, who is seating on a throne.[4]

References

  1. The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 73-88.
  2. Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
  3. Joyce Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, Penguin Books, 2001 paperback, p.167
  4. Lepsius, Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abth. III, vol. 6, pl. 138.n.

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