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The following titles are attested for
Ikhi I:
1. jmj-r? hnw — overseer of the residence;26)
2. jmj-ry z$(w) cprw — overseer of the scribes
of the crews;27)
3. mtj nj cpr wjl — regulator of the crew of
the ship;28)
4. hntj-S Mn-nfr-Mrjj-R' — attendant of the
pyramid of Pepy I;
5. hntj-S Dd-swt-Ttj — attendant of the
pyramid ofTeti;29)
6. htmtj bjtj — sealer of the King of Lower
Egypt;30)
7. htmtj ntr — god's sealer (boat captain);31)
8. htmtj ntr m wjlwj c3(wj) — god's sealer in
two great boats;32)

9. hrj-tp nswt — chamberlain of the king;33)
10. smr wctj — sole companion;34) NB: All
the titles, except for both hntj-$ (nos. 4, 5),
are attested on the false door, while titles
nos. 4, 5, 7, 9, 10 are found on the jambs.
As for Ikhi/Mery II, the inscriptions on
blocks CH14-FR-02-2 and CH14-FR-02-
4 mention, after Ikhi/Mery I, also z3fhtmtj
ntr Mrjj and zj.f htmtj ntr Jhj, respectively,
thus attesting one of his titles.
Few individuals named Ikhi are found
in other sources.35) The title of the god's
sealer was held by only one of them,
mentioned in four inscriptions in Wadi
Hammamat (Hammamat 30,■r>6) 6l,37)
103,38) 10739)). Two of these inscriptions

26) D. Jones, Index of Ancient Egyptian Titles, Epithets and Phrases of the Old Kingdom, BAR International Series 866
(Oxford 2000) (= Jones, Index), 197, no. 738; cf. N. Strudwick, The Administration of Egypt in the Old Kingdom (London
1985), 68.
27) D. Jones, A Glossary of Ancient Egyptian Nautical Titles and Terms (= Jones, Glossary) (London 1988), 61-62, no. 53;
P.-M. Chevereau, “Contribution a la prosographie des cadres militaires de l'Ancien Empire et de la Premiere Periode
Intermediaire. B - titres nautiques”, RdE 40 (1989), 31-32; Jones, Index, 210-211, no. 783-
28) The title is not attested elsewhere. The only other Old Kingdom titles formed with mtj are mtj nj zl (Jones, Index,
452-453, nos. 1694-1695) and mtj nj hzt, being presumably a variant of the previous (A. M. Roth, Egyptian Phyles in the
Old Kingdom (Chicago 1991), 214; Jones, Index, 452, no. 1693). It may be assumed that mtj nj cpr wji fulfilled a similar
function in respect to the ship's crew as mtj nj zl in respect to the workgroup or priestly phyle (W. Helck, Untersuchungen
zu den Beamtentiteln des agyptischen Alten Reiches (Gliickstadt 1954) (= Helck, Beamtentiteln), 130; B. J. Kemp,
Ancient Egypt. Anatomy of a Civilization (London-New York 1991), 112-113; B. E. Shafer, Temples, Priests and Rituals:
An overview, in: ed. B. E. Shafer, Temples of Ancient Egypt (London 1997), 13). Possibly mtj nj cpr wjl was a variant of
the title hrp cpr(w) (attested in the Old Kingdom: Chevereau, RdE 40, op. cit., 24), introduced during the reign of Pepy I
(as was mtj nj zT) and not used later.
29) Jones, Index, 694, no. 2537. On the interpretation of the title hntj-S as “attendant” instead of the earlier accepted “tenant
of the land”, cf. A. M. Roth, The Cemetery of Palace Attendants (Boston 1995), 42-43; P. Posener-Krieger, “Les archives du
temple funeraire de Neferirkare-Kakai”, BdE 65, (London 1968), 577-581. Cf. also N. Kanawati, “Saqqara Excavations shed
new light on Old Kingdom history”, BACE 1 (1990), 63, N. Kanawati, M. Abder-Raziq, The Teti Cemetery at Saqqara, vol.
III. The Tombs of Neferseshemre and Seankhuiptah (Warminster 1998), 39; M. Barta, Abusir V (Prague 2001), 130-132.
30) Jones, Index, 763, no. 2775.
31) Jones, Glossary, 104, no. 238 (as sdlwtj ntr); Chevereau, RdE 40, op. cit., 4-11 (as htmw ntr); Jones, Index, 767, no.
2791; Helck, Beamtentiteln, 93ff. Cf also E. Eichler, Untersuchungen zum Expeditionswesen des agyptischen Alten Reiches
(Wiesbaden 1993), 234-254.
32) Jones, Glossary, 105, no. 241; Chevereau, loc. cit.; Jones, Index, 769, no. 2796.
33) Jones, Index, 788, no. 2874. On another interpretation (as tpj hr(t) nswt - property administrator of the king), see
H. Goedicke, “Titles for Titles", in: ed. S. Allam, Grund und Boden (Tubingen 1994), 227-234.
34) Jones, Index, 892, no. 3268.
35) Cf. Ranke, PN I, loc. cit.
36) Goyon, Nouvelles inscriptions rupestres du Wadi Hammamat (Paris 1957), 64, pi. XXXII; cf. Eichler, op. cit., 61 no. 92.
37) Couyat, Montet, “Les inscriptions hieroglyphiques et hieratiques du Ouadi Hammamat”, MIFAO 34 (Le Caire 1912),
58 ; cf. Eichler, op. cit., 70, no. 122.
38) Couyat, Montet, op. cit., 72, pi. XXV; cf. Eichler, op. cit., 73, no. 132.
39) Couyat, Montet, op. cit., 74, pi. XXVII; cf. Eichler, op. cit., 74 no. 133.

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