Ameny was an ancient Egyptian official of the

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with the title high steward. In this function he was the main administrator of the royal estates.

Attestation

Ameny (PD 98) is known from several stelae, a statue and from scarabs. Ameny's father was a certain Tahaa and his mother the ''lady of the house'' Kemtet. Not much is known about them.

High Steward

As high steward, Ameny was, after the visier and treasurer, the most important official at the royal court. On some of his monuments, he appears with important ranking titles, such as '' member of the elite'', ''foremost of action'' and ''royal sealer''. On one stela in a private collection, he appears next to the '' treasurer'' Senebsumai. Alessandro Roccati: ''Quattro Stele del Medio Regno'', in Stephen Quirke (editor): ''Discovering Egypt from the Neva, The Egyptological Legacy of Oleg D Berlev'', Berlin 2003 , p. 111-114, pl. 7 online

The latter is well datable into the middle of the 13th Dynasty, also providing a fixed point for the date of Ameny.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ameny Officials of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian high stewards