| Intro | Ancient Egyptian nomarch |
| Is | Priest |
| From | Egypt |
| Type | Religion |
| Gender | male |
Mesehti was an ancient Egyptian nomarch of the 13th nomos of Upper Egypt (“the Upper Sycamore”) around 2000 BCE, during the 11th dynasty. He also was seal-bearer and overseer of the priests of Wepwawet.
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| Mesehti in hieroglyphs |
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Mesehti is well known for his funerary equipment, found in Asyut at the end of 19th century during an illegal excavation. The contents of the tomb – which at the time of the discovery appeared undisturbed – was mainly sold to the Cairo Museum.
Among the objects of the funerary equipment, the most famous are the wooden models of soldiers: a group of striding Egyptian spearmen equipped with a hide shield and a white skirt, and another group composed of 40 striding nubian archers, darker-skinned and wearing a red loincloth.
The tomb also contained two large wooden coffins whose interior is richly decorated with Coffin Texts; these coffins are among the main sources for this type of religious texts, which were much used during the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom.