Heqaib III

Heqaib III was an Ancient Egyptian Nomarch at Elephantine. He lived at the end of the 12th Dynasty around 1800 BC. He held the titles Nomarch and overseer of priests of Khnum, lord of the cataracts.

Heqaib in hieroglyphs
Era: Middle Kingdom (2055–1650 BC)

Heqaib III
Nomarch in the 1st nome of Upper Egypt
Successor	Amenyseneb
Dynasty	12th dynasty
Pharaoh	Amenemhat III
Burial	Qubbet el-Hawa
Mother	Sat-tjeni

Heqaib was the son of a woman called Sat-tjeni and was perhaps the brother of Amenyseneb who followed him in the office of the nomarch, both men have a woman called Sat-tjeni as mother.^[1] It has been suggested that Sat-tjeni was the daughter of a previous nomarch at Elephantine, Sarenput II.^[2]
Heqaib is mainly known from a statue dedicate by him into the local sanctuary of his distant predecessor Heqaib at Elephantine. The statue shows him kneeling with a vessel in each hand.^[3] His tomb was discovered in 2014 at Qubbet el-Hawa, with a painted coffin and the remains of a funerary mask.^[4]