Babaef (vizier)

Babaef ( called Chnumbaef after another reading ) was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom . He was probably a son of Duaenre and thus a grandson of King ( Pharaoh ) Chephren . During the reign of Shepseskaf , the last ruler of the 4th dynasty, he held the office of vizier and was thus the highest official after the king.

His grave

Front view, floor plan and cross-sections of grave G 5230 according to Lepsius

Babaef owns the mastaba G 5230 on the western burial ground of the Great Pyramid of Cheops . It seems to have never been decorated, but contained at least thirteen statues and several statuettes of the deceased, some of which were found in full and some in fragments. The statues were made from black granite , rose granite , alabaster and limestone . They are now in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston , the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna . A sarcophagus made of rose granite, which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo , also seems to originally come from here.

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. 442–443 ( 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 . Text I, pp. 66-69 ( PDF; 19 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, pp. 155-157 ( PDF 30.5 MB ).
George Andrew Reisner : A History of the Giza Necropolis. Volume I . Harvard University Press, Harvard 1942, p. 248, Fig. 153 ( PDF; 249.8 MB )

↑ ^a ^b so Hermann Ranke: The Egyptian personal names . Vol. 1, Glückstadt 1935, p. 275, No. 12.
↑ Porter / Moss, Volume 3, pp. 156–157
↑ Porter / Moss, Volume 3, p. 156

personal data
SURNAME	Babaef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Chnumbaef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient egyptian prince
DATE OF BIRTH	26th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	26th century BC BC or 25th century BC Chr.