Nebanch
Nebanch in hieroglyphics | |||||
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Nb ˁnḫ Lord (with) life force |
Nebanch was a high ancient Egyptian official and one of the best attested of the 13th Dynasty , who lived around 1700 BC. Lived.
His father Sobekhotep was a simple domain administrator , his mother was the mistress of the house of Hapyu. His brother was the great scribe of the vizier Dedusobek / Bebi, whose daughter Nubchaes became the great consort of the king . One of her brothers was the Herald of Thebes Sobekemsaf , who in turn is known from a statue that is now in the KHM Vienna .
Under Neferhotep I , Nebanch appears as a king known to the ruler in five rock inscriptions near Aswan . He is named together with the treasurer Senebi , in whose administration he probably served. Under Sobekhotep IV , he was then promoted to senior domain administrator and led the king's expeditions to Wadi Hammamat and Wadi el-Hudi .
Nebanch's grave has not yet been found, but it is possible that he was buried in Abydos . Many objects with his name were found there. Below is a stele with a hymn, a fragment of a statue and blocks from a lintel. One of the oldest known heart scarabs also comes from the Nebanch . This is inscribed with the Book of the Dead No. 30 and is now in the British Museum . The location of this object is unfortunately unknown.
Notoriety in Egyptology
Nebanch has also gained some fame among Egyptology students and Egyptologists , as the song of a stele from Abydos, which the singer Tjen-aa dedicated to Nebanch, appears as a practice text in Alan Gardiner's famous grammar :
- The singer Tjeni-aa, he says:
- Oh how firmly you are in your place in eternity
- your chapel of permanence!
- She is filled with food offerings
- by containing all good things.
- Your ka be with you,
- it may not leave you
- Oh royal sealer, chief domain administrator Nebanch
- You own the sweet breath of the north wind.
- This is how his singer speaks, who keeps his name alive.
- The venerable singer Tjeni-aa, whom he loves
- who sings to his ka every day.
literature
- Kim Ryholt : The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 BC (= The Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Vol. 20). The Carsten Niebuhr Institute of Near Eastern Studies, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 87-7289-421-0 , pp. 239-242.
Individual evidence
- ↑ tungsten Grajetzki : Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom. London 2009, ISBN 9780715637456 , p. 79, fig. 35; London BM EA 64378
- ^ Sir Alan Gardiner: Egyptian Grammar. Being an Introduction to the Study of Hieroglyphs . 3rd Ed., Rev. Oxford University Press, London 1957 (1st edition 1927), ISBN 0-900416-35-1 , p. 421.
- ^ Thomas Eric Peet: The Cemeteries of Abydos. Part 2: 1911-1912 . Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1914, p. 117, Figure 80, Plate XIII (5).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Nebanch |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian head of domain |
DATE OF BIRTH | before 1700 BC Chr. |
DATE OF DEATH | after 1700 BC Chr. |