Anedjib: Safe of Heart

"Anedjib, "Safe of Heart", more correctly Adjib and also known as

Hor-Anedjib, Hor-Adjib and Enezib, is the Horus name. The Egyptian historian Manetho named him "Miebîdós" and credited him with a reign of 26 years, whilst the Royal Canon of Turin credited him with an implausible reign of 74 years. Egyptologists and historians now consider both records to be exaggerations.

Adjib was possibly married to a woman named Betrest. On the Palermo Stone she is described as the mother of Adjib's successor.

 

According to archaeological records, Adjib introduced a new royal title which he thought to use as some kind of complement to the

Seal of Adjib

Nisut-Bity-title: the Nebuy-title, written with the doubled sign of a falcon on a short standard. It means "The two lords" and refers to the divine state patrons Horus and Seth. It also symbolically points to Lower- and Upper Egypt. Adjib is thought to have legitimized his role as Egyptian king with the use of this title.

 

All Hebsed pictures of Adjib show the notation Qesen ("calamity") written on the stairways of the Hebsed pavilion. Possibly the end of Adjib's reign was a violent one.

 

Adjib's burial site was excavated at Abydos and is known as "Tomb X". It measures 16.4 x 9.0 metres and is the smallest of all royal tombs in this area. Adjib's tomb has its entrance at the eastern side and a staircase leads down inside. The burial chamber is surrounded by 64 subsidiary tombs and simply divided by a cut-off wall into two rooms."

 

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