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Ankhtifi was a nomarch during the First Intermediate Period (probably under the 8th dynasty). He was buried in the necropolis of Moalla a few kilometres south of Thebes. His tomb contains his biography, with the exaggerations typical of these inscriptions intended to make a good impression upon the gods. Ankhtifi may have been a good administrator, he was not a philanthropist: the corn he sent north and south had to be paid for.
I was the
beginning and the end of mankind, since nobody like myself existed before nor
will he exist; nobody like me was ever born nor will he be born. I surpassed
the feats of the ancestors, and coming generations will not be able to equal me
in any of my feats within this million of years.
..... "the sky was clouded and the earth [...] of hunger on this sandbank
of Apophis. The south came with its people and the north with its children;
they brought the finest oil in exchange for the barley which was given them. My
barley went upstream until it reached lower Nubia and downstream until it
reached the Abydene nome. All of Upper Egypt was dying of hunger and people
were eating their children, but I did not allow anyone to die of hunger in this
nome.
......
The whole country has become like locusts going upstream and downstream (...);
but never did I allow anybody in need to go from this nome to another. I am the
hero without equal.