Nebimen (sculptor)

Portrait of Mrs. Tjepu from the tomb, now in the Brooklyn Museum .

Nebimen , also Nebamun, was an ancient Egyptian sculptor of the 18th dynasty who was active in Thebes and is known for his tomb ( TT181 ).

Nebimen was the son of the sculptor Neferhat . Like him, he had the title of "Colonel of the Sculptors". He was during the reigns of the Pharaohs from Thutmose IV to Amenhotep III. active (1397 to 1351/50 BC) and involved in furnishing both graves. He is best known today for his grave (TT181) in Thebes, whose inscriptions also provide information. He shared the grave with another sculptor named Ipuki , with whom he probably also worked. Nebimen probably married his widow and was able to use his grave right away. Behind him, therefore, is not shown his wife, who is shown with Ipuki, but unusually his mother Tjepu . It is unclear whether he also worked on his own grave. The common grave is the last grave of artists in the official cemetery of Thebes, all subsequent artists of Thebes were then buried in Deir el-Medina , where the craftsmen who worked on the graves also lived. If the outline artist Hi was not Ipuki's brother but Neferhat's son, then he is Nebimen's brother.

literature

• Sandra Luisa Lippert: Nebimen (I) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , p. 551.
• Yvonne Ott: Ipuki . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike. Volume 2: L-Z. Addendum A – K. Saur, Munich / Leipzig 2004, ISBN 3-598-11414-1 , pp. 360–361.

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Commons : Tomb of Nebimen and Ipuki  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files