Montuhotep Nebhepetre (Montuhotep II)
Montuhotep (Mentuhotep II, Montjuhotep II, Montjuhotpe II, Mentuhotpe II) Nebhepetre (Nebhetepre) was the fifth king of the Eleventh Dynasty. He is credited with fully re-unifying Egypt after the turmoil of the First intermediate Period. He also built a beautiful Mortuary Temple at Deir el Bahri which inspired the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut (New Kingdom). According to the Turin Kings list he reigned for an impressive fifty-one years.
Montuhotep is generally agreed to be the son of Intef III and his wife Iah. A relief at Wadi Shatt el-Rigal (near Gebel el-Silsila) includes a colossal figure of Montuhotep II dwarfing three other figures believed to be he mother, Intef III and Khety his chancellor. There is also a masonry block found at Tod with reliefs portraying Montuhotep II towering over three kings, named Inhtef, lined up behind him. However, Montuhotep worked so diligently to enhance his reputation with his contemporaries with self-deification that some Egyptologists believe he may not have been a legitimate heir to the throne, though this might also be explained by his efforts to reunite Egyp
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