Prehotep I

Prehotep I
Vizier on the North
Egyptian name
Successor	Prehotep II (Vizier)
Dynasty	19th Dynasty
Pharaoh	Ramesses II
Father	Mery, High Priest of Osiris
Mother	Maianuy

The ancient Egyptian noble Prehotep I (also known as Rahotep, Parahotep, Prehotep the Elder, Parehotp) was Vizier in the latter part of the reign of Ramesses II, during the 19th Dynasty.^[1][2]

Family

Parahotep is mentioned on two monuments belonging to the High Priest of Osiris Wennufer. On a statue now in the Athens Museum, the city governor and vizier Rahotep is said to be the (grand-)son of the High Priest of Osiris To and to be born of Maianuy. Wennufer also included his brother Prehotep in a family monument from Abydos. The vizier Nebamun is also said to be a brother of Wennufer and Prehotep. On another monument however Nebamun is said to be a son of Ramose and Sheritre, so he is more likely to be a cousin.^[1]

Monuments

Prehotep is known from a stela in Abydos (Cairo Jde 19775) which depicts Prehotep with two other men and three women adoring Osiris and Isis. A canopic jar with Selqet and Qebehsenuef protecting Prehotep is now in Brussels (E. 5901).^[1]

Prehotep is mentioned on Wennufer's monuments as mentioned in the section about family above.

Identity with vizier Prehotep II

• for the possible identity with a namesake, compare: Prehotep II (Vizier)

References

1. Kitchen, K. A. (1996). Ramessides Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations. Vol. III. Blackwell Publishers.
2. Kitchen, K. A. (1982). Pharaoh Triumphant: the life and times of Ramesses II. Aris & Phillips Ltd.