Ameni Ameni Amenemhāt
provincial governor · Beni Hasan, ancient Egypt · 20th century BC
A governor who ruled a province under the Twelfth Dynasty of the Middle Kingdom. He had an account of how he governed carved on the wall of his rock tomb at Beni Hasan.
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20th century BC
No peasant's daughter did I harm, no widow did I wrong, no field labourer did I oppress, no herdsman did I repulse. I did not seize the men of any master of five field labourers for the forced labour (corvée). There was no man in abject want during the period of my rule, and there was no man hungry in my time.The autobiography carved on the wall of his tomb at Beni Hasan · in place of the original: the English translation by E. A. Wallis Budge (1914)
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