Amenhotep son of Hapu
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · Recorded classification
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: ImhotepThe other deified commoner. Egypt raised very few non-royal men to the status of gods, and these two — both architects, both sages, both eventually healers — ended up sharing a sanctuary and a clientele of the sick.Reference treatment of the joint cult of Amenhotep son of Hapu and Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari, where the two deified sages were worshipped together and consulted by dream incubation. (secondary)
Sources
- Amenhotep son of Hapu was the architect and chief official of Amenhotep III, granted his own funerary temple in life and deified after death as a healer and sage, sharing a dream-incubation cult with Imhotep at Deir el-Bahari.: Reference treatments of Amenhotep son of Hapu, his career, his deification and the joint cult with Imhotep. (secondary)