Nebemachet

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Nebemachet in hieroglyphics
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Nebemachet
(Neb em achet)
Nb m 3ḫ.t
Lord on the horizon

Nebemachet was a prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th dynasty . He was a son of Pharaoh Chephren and his wife Meresanch III. Under Chephren's successor, Mykerinos , he held the office of vizier and was thus the highest official after the king. A "servant of Hathor " named Nubhotep is known as the wife of Nebemachet .

Graves

Ground plan of the grave LG 12
Ground plan of grave LG 86

Two graves were created for Nebemachet: Firstly, rock grave LG 86 on the Central Field in Giza and, secondly, rock grave LG 12 in the quarry cemetery west of the Chephren pyramid . LG 86 consists of two rooms and is decorated with numerous reliefs. Some scenes show the deceased together with his wife Nubhotep and his sister Schepsetkau . Fragments of several statues have been found inside and outside this tomb. LG 12 consists of three rooms and has an architectural peculiarity: the walls in room A consist entirely of round stone beams that are supposed to imitate tree trunks.

literature

  • Michel Baud : Famille royale et pouvoir sous l'Ancien Empire égyptien. Tome 2 (= Bibliothèque d'Étude. Volume 126/2). Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, Cairo 1999, ISBN 2-7247-0250-6 , pp. 487-488 ( PDF; 16.7 MB ).
  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, pp. 52-61, ISBN 977-424-878-3
  • Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia. 12 table volumes, 5 text volumes, Nicolaische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1849–1859 ( online version )
    • First volume of text: Lower Egypt and Memphis . Pp. 30–32, 102–104 ( PDF; 19 MB )
    • Second section: Monuments of the Old Kingdom. Volume III. Plates 12–13 ( PDF; 16.4 MB )
  • Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. III. Memphis . 2nd Edition. Oxford University Press, Oxford 1974, p. 229, 230–233 ( PDF 30.5 MB )
  • George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I . Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, pp. 224, 236, 247–248, Figs. 129, 140 ( PDF; 249.8 MB )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lepsius, Monuments, plates 12-13
  2. ↑ Lepsius, Denkmäler, Text, pp. 31–32
personal data
SURNAME Nebemachet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of the ancient Egyptian 4th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 27th century BC BC or 26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 26th century BC Chr.