[6] At the Red Sea port of Ain Sukhna expeditions went to places like the Wadi Maghareh in the Sinai.

Products like turquoise and copper were transported to Memphis some 120 km across the sand tracks of the Eastern Desert.

), jnw nb(w) nfr(w) n ḫȝst]He is known from a few inscriptions in Wadi Hammamat that record expeditions to the Red Sea coast and to quarry stone for the royal monuments.

A fragment of a slate bowl found at Lisht North was regarded for a long time to be inscribed on the outside with the official titulary of Mentuhotep IV, and on the inside with that of King Amenemhat I, his successor.

Since the two inscriptions are incised in a different style of writing, according to Dorothea Arnold, this indicates that Amenemhat had his name added to an older vessel that already bore the name of Mentuhotep IV.

There is currently no archaeological or textual evidence to prove that Mentuhotep was deposed by his vizier or that he chose Amenemhat to be his designated successor.