Deir el-Gebrawi

دير الجبراوي Dair al-Ǧabrāwī Deir el-Gebrawi
Coordinates	27 ° 19 ′  N , 31 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 27 ° 19 ′  N , 31 ° 6 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Asyut
Markaz	Abnūb
Residents	3055 (2006)
Painting from the tomb of Ibi

Deir el-Gebrawi ( Arabic دير الجبراوي, DMG Dair al-Ǧabrāwī ) is a village in Middle Egypt , about 12 km east of today's city of Manfalut on the east side of the Nile . Deir el-Gebrawi is located in the Markaz Abnūb of the Asyut governorate , the 2006 census counted 3,055 inhabitants.

Deir el-Gebrawi is named for a nearby necropolis from Pharaonic times . The necropolis is spread over two separate rock faces, the "Northern Cliff" and the "Southern Cliff". During the end of the Old Kingdom and perhaps still during the First Intermediate Period , around 120 rock tombs were built here , 16 of which have pictures and inscriptions. Of particular importance are the graves of several princes of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau , some of whom also held other very high state offices such as that of the vizier or a ruler of Upper Egypt. These tombs include those of Ibi and Djau in the southern group, and those of Henqu I, Hemre I, Henqu II and Hemre II in the northern group.

Research history

The necropolis has been visited by various researchers since the middle of the 19th century, but Norman de Garis Davies made a first detailed description in 1900. Davies focused his work mainly on the southern group of tombs. A detailed documentation of the northern group was only made in 2004 by Naguib Kanawati . Many graves showed a strong deterioration in the state of preservation, which is mainly due to the activity of grave robbers who removed wall decorations in the 1970s.

List of decorated graves

North group

The northern group of tombs

No.	Surname	Title (selection)	Remarks
N38	Nebib
N39	Henqu I / Cheteti	Head of Upper Egypt, prince of the 12th Upper Egyptian district
N46	Hemre II./Isi	Prince of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau
N67	Henqu II. / Iy ... f	Gaufurst of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau, vizier, head of the pyramid city	Son of Henqus I.
N72	Hemre I./Isi	Gaufürst of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau, vizier	Son of Henqus I.
N95	Name lost

Southern group

No.	Surname	Title (selection)	Remarks
S2	Hetepneb	First friend
S8	Ibi	Head of the South, Lord Prince of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau, Head of the two barns, Head of the two treasure houses, Supreme Servant of the Pyramid Pepis II.
S12	Djau / Schemai	Head of the South, Lord Prince of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau, Head of the two barns, Head of the two treasure houses, Supreme Servant of the Pyramid Pepis II.	Son of Ibi (S8)
	Djau	Gaufurst of the 12th Upper Egyptian Gau, second servant of the pyramid Pepis II.	Son of Djau / Schemai
S14	Woe	Only friend
S16	Techyt	Sole royal concubine
S28	Senebsen
S33	Merut
S41	Nefertepwa	Only friend
S42	Nefernefchetu

literature

• Horst Beinlich : Deir el-Gebrawi . In: Wolfgang Helck , Eberhard Otto (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. (LA) Vol. 1, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, Sp. 1027-1028.
• Norman de Garis Davies : The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi. Part I: Tomb of Aba and smaller Tombs of the Southern Group (= Archaeological Survey of Egypt, Eleventh Memoir ). London 1902 ( online ).
• Norman de Garis Davies: The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi. Part II: Tombs of Zau and Tombs of the Northern Group (= Archaeological Survey of Egypt. Twelfth Memoir ). London 1902 ( online ).
• Naguib Kanawati : Deir el-Gebrawi. Volume I: The Northern Cliff (= The Australian Center for Egyptology, Reports. Vol. 23). Oxford 2005.
• Naguib Kanawati: Deir el-Gebrawi. Volume II: The Southern Cliff. The Tomb of Ibi and Others (= The Australian Center for Egyptology, Reports. Vol. 25). Oxford 2007.
• Juan Carlos Moreno García : Deir el-Gabrawi. In: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology. UCLA: Department of Near Eastern Languages ​​and Cultures, 2012 ( Online ).
• Bertha Porter , Rosalind LB Moss : Topographical bibliography of ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic texts, reliefs, and paintings. Vol. IV: Lower and Middle Egypt. Oxford 1934, pp. 242-246 ( PDF; 14.3 MB ).

Web links

Commons : Deir el-Gebrawi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Deir el-Gabrawi - Egyptian Monuments

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egyptian census data 2006  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Beinlich in: LÄ Vol. I, columns 1027-1028.
3. ↑ Kanawati: Deir el-Gebrawi. Vol. I, p. 11.
4. ↑ Davies: The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi. Part One; Davies: The Rock Tombs of Deir el Gebrâwi. Part II.
5. ↑ Kanawati: Deir el-Gebrawi. Vol. I.
6. ↑ Kanawati: Deir el-Gebrawi. Vol. I, p. 7.