Sobeknacht II.

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Sobeknacht II in hieroglyphics
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Sobeknacht
(Sobek
Nacht ) Sbk nḫt
Sobek is victorious

Sobeknacht (II.) Was a local Egyptian prince in Necheb ( Elkab ), who lived and officiated in the Second Intermediate Period (around 1600 BC).

supporting documents

Sobeknacht is best known for its rock tomb in el-Kab . He was the son of Sobeknacht I and his wife Nofru. The tomb had a chapel decorated with paintings and underground burial chambers. From the Second Intermediate Period there are only very few painted tombs and of these few surviving specimens from this period, the Sobeknacht Chapel is the largest. The rock tomb was known to researchers for a long time and was published in a monograph in 1896 . In the grave is also the image of the place Vorzeichners Sedjemnetjeru who was so obviously the senior artists in the decoration of the tomb. It is one of the very few examples from ancient Egypt where such an artist is known by name.

Since 2003 there has been another expedition that took up the grave again. A new inscription was found, which had been overlooked when the grave was first worked on. In this inscription, Sobeknacht reports that the Nubians, together with the people of Punt, started a foray into Egypt, sacked the country and then were defeated by the Egyptians.

The Nubians are certainly the people of the Kerma culture . In Kerma itself there were also a great number of Egyptian objects that were previously assumed to have been negotiated in Egypt. This new inscription shows how powerful the Kerma culture was at that time and that these Egyptian objects appear to be loot from Egypt.

literature

  • Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Volume 4: Upper Egypt . Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1901, The rock graves - 10th grave of Sobeknacht. , S. 55 ( online [accessed January 2, 2012]).
  • Joseph John Tylor: Wall drawings and monuments of El Kab . tape 2 : Joseph John Tylor, Somers Clarke, Francis Llewellyn Griffith : The tomb of Sebeknekht . Egypt Exploration Fund et al., London 1896 (English, online [accessed January 2, 2012]).
  • Vivian Davies: Sobeknakht of Elkab and the coming of Kush. In: Egyptian Archeology. Volume 23, 2003, ISSN  0962-2837 , pp. 3-6.

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personal data
SURNAME Sobeknacht II.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prince of Elkab
DATE OF BIRTH 17th century BC BC or 16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 17th century BC BC or 16th century BC Chr.