Amenhotep son of Hapu
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · mortal
Egypt deified two commoners and the registry held one of them. Imhotep, Djoser's architect, is the famous case; Amenhotep son of Hapu is the other, a scribe and building official under Amenhotep III who was given a funerary temple of his own on the west bank, next to his king's, while he was still alive. After death he became a god of healing, and by the Ptolemaic period he and Imhotep were sharing a sanctuary in the rooms of Hatshepsut's temple at Deir el-Bahari, where sick people came to sleep in the hope of a curative dream. Two architects, fifteen hundred years apart, running a hospital together.
Domains
- healing
- wisdom
Relations
- counterpart of: Imhotep
Sources
- Reference treatments of Amenhotep son of Hapu, his career, his deification and the joint cult with Imhotep.