Sabu (civil servant)

Sabu in hieroglyphics
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Sabu (also Sab ) is the ancient Egyptian name of a high official who lived during the reign of the Pharaohs Den and Anedjib ( 1st Dynasty ). He was probably the administrator of a city or province. Walter Bryan Emery suggested that he was a son of Pharaoh Anedjib.

Sabu's name appears on a clay seal that was found in the necropolis of Umm el-Qaab in Tomb X of King Anedjib in Abydos . Here he bears the title "Administrator of 'Horus, the star of godhood'". In 1936 the archaeologist Walter Bryan Emery discovered Saqqara his grave Mastaba S3111 . Clay seals that were found here bear his name as well as the name of the pharaoh Den and his title “Head of the magazine of the domain 'Horus, the star of the godhood” ”.

The so-called Sabu disk was also found in his grave , which became known primarily through supporters of pre-astronautics .

literature

William Matthew Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901: Part I (= Excavation memoirs / Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 21). Kegan Paul Trench Trübner, London 1901, p. 44 + plate 27 ( online )
Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the thinite period (= Egyptological treatises. Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , pp. 191 & 192.
Dilwyn Jones: An Index of ancient Egyptian titles, epithets and phrases of the Old Kingdom . Volume 2, No. 2208, Archaeopress, Oxford 2000, ISBN 1-8417-1069-5 , p. 602.

Web links

PRINCE SABUS SECRET

Individual evidence

^ Andréas Stauder: The Earliest Egyptian Writing in Visible Language Oriental Institute Museum Publications, Chicago 2015, ISBN 1885923767 , p. 133 ( online)

personal data
SURNAME	Sabu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	ancient Egyptian royal family official
DATE OF BIRTH	around 3000 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	around 3000 BC Chr.

[1] Andréas Stauder: The Earliest Egyptian Writing in Visible Language Oriental Institute Museum Publications, Chicago 2015, ISBN 1885923767 , p. 133 ( online)