Yuny (viceroy of Kush)
| Yuny | |
|---|---|
| Viceroy of Kush | |
 Yuny kneeling before Seti I (stela at el-Kanaïs) | |
| Predecessor | Amenemopet |
| Successor | Heqanakht |
| Dynasty | 19th Dynasty |
| Pharaoh | Seti I, Ramesses II |
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]
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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- ^ The Viceroys of Ethiopia (II) by George A. Reisner The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 6, No. 1. (Jan., 1920), pp. 73-88.
- ^ a b c Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume III, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
- ^ a b c d Joyce Tyldesley, Ramesses: Egypt's Greatest Pharaohs, Penguin Books, 2001 paperback, p.167
- ^ Lepsius, Richard, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, Abth. III, vol. 6, pl. 138.n.
External links[edit]
- Image and description of statue of Yuny and his wife. Metropolitan Museum of Art.