Intef the Elder
| Intef the Elder | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Intef the Great (Intef-aa), Intef born of Iku | ||||||||||||||||||||
Intef the Elder seated (center), on what is perhaps his funerary stele CG 20009. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Reign | 22nd century BC | |||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Mentuhotep I? | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Children | possibly Mentuhotep I | |||||||||||||||||||
| Mother | Iku(i) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Burial | uncertain, possibly a tomb at Dra' Abu el-Naga' | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 11th Dynasty | |||||||||||||||||||
Intef, whose name is commonly accompanied by epithets such as the Elder, the Great (= Intef-aa) or born of Iku, was a Theban nomarch during the First Intermediate Period c. 2150 BC and later considered a founding figure of the 11th Dynasty, which eventually reunified Egypt.