Yuni served as Head of the-stable-of-Seti-I, Charioteer of His Majesty, and Chief of the

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before becoming Viceroy during the reign of

Seti I Menmaatre Seti I (or Sethos I in Greek) was the second pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt during the New Kingdom period, ruling c.1294 or 1290 BC to 1279 BC. He was the son of Ramesses I and Sitre, and the father of Ramesses II. The ...

.The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 73-88. He would use some of these titles simultaneously. On a stela from Abydos – now in the

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(Jd'E 34620) – the inscription reads: Yuni started the Egyptian building projects at Amara West and Aksha.Joyce Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, Penguin Books, 2001 paperback, p.167 It was "on his orders that the first blocks of the

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temples were cut. Yuny commemorated his work with a rock-cut scene showing himself standing before Ramesses II on the Abu Simbel cliff. After ten years under Ramesses II, Yuny retired from his post in

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. He was succeeded by Heqanakht.

Monuments

* ''Abydos stela (Cairo JdE 34620)'' Yuny is shown adoring the Abydos Triad consisting of

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Isis Isis (; ''Ēse''; ; Meroitic: ''Wos'' 'a''or ''Wusa''; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎, romanized: ʾs) was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingd ...

and

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. * ''Abu Simbel Rock Stela No.10'' The Viceroy Yuny appears before Pharaoh Ramesses II, who is seated on a throne. * ''Rock stela at al-Kanāʾis'' (el-Kanaïs) The Viceroy Yuny is kneeling before Pharaoh Seti I, who is seating on a throne.Lepsius, Richard
Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien
Abth. III, vol. 6, pl. 138.n.

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Image and description of statue of Yuny and his wife.
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