Nebamun
Nebamun (fl. C. 1350 BCE) was a middle-ranking official "scribe and grain accountant" during the period of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. He worked at the vast temple complex near Thebes (now Luxor) where the state-god Amun was worshipped.
Nebamun
Old Egyptian Painter · Richard Parkinson: The Painted Tomp-Chapel of Nebamun, p. 139 · Public domain
- Name
- Nebamun
- Occupation
- Scribe and grain accountant
- Spouse
- Hatshepsut
- Born
- 1500
- Died
- 1400
- Nationality
- Ancient Egypt
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Nebamun (fl. C. 1350 BCE) was a middle-ranking official "scribe and grain accountant" during the period of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. He worked at the vast temple complex near Thebes (now Luxor) where the state-god Amun was worshipped.
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His name was translated as "My Lord is Amun", and his association with the temple, coupled with the importance of grain supplies to Egypt, meant that he was a person of considerable practical importance, though not of the highest rank. Known today because of the 1820 discovery of the richly decorated Tomb of Nebamun on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes. Although the exact location of that tomb is now lost, a number of wall paintings from the tomb were acquired by the British Museum where they are now on display. They are considered to be one of that museum's greatest treasures.
Tomb of Nebamun. Detail, a scribe reads a papyrus. Under the arm, writing palette.
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Egyptian Stela housed at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, on which the royal scribe Nebamun, worships Amun-Re and Mut. Meatnet Gurob, New Kingdom, 19th Dynasty.
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• Name — Nebamun • Occupation — Scribe and grain accountant • Spouse — Hatshepsut
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• Illustration — Fowling scene • Illustration — Dancers and musicians • Illustration — Pond in a Garden from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes • Illustration — Tomb of Nebamun, Banquet
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