Nimlot B, also Nemareth ('' fl.'' c. 940 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian prince, general and governor during the early

22nd Dynasty The Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt is also known as the Bubastite Dynasty, since the pharaohs originally ruled from the city of Bubastis. It was founded by Shoshenq I. The Twenty-first, Twenty-second, Twenty-third, Twenty-fourth, and Twenty-f ...

Biography

Nimlot was the third son of

pharaoh Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: '' pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the ...

Shoshenq I (after

Osorkon I Sekhemkheperre Osorkon I was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the 22nd Dynasty. Osorkon's territory included much of the Levant. The Osorkon Bust found at Byblos is one of the five Byblian royal inscriptions. Biography The son of Shoshenq I and ...

and Iuput A); his mother was the queen Patareshnes. He was appointed ''Commander of all the infantry'' by his father and was stationed in

Herakleopolis Magna Heracleopolis Magna ( grc-gre, Μεγάλη Ἡρακλέους πόλις, ''Megálē Herakléous pólis'') and Heracleopolis (, ''Herakleópolis'') and Herakleoupolis (), is the Roman name of the capital of the 20th nome of ancient Upper Eg ...

(around 940 BCE) which at the time was a strategic location for the control over

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; Nimlot also served as governor of this town. He was very devoted to the local deity

Heryshaf In Egyptian mythology, Heryshaf, or Hershef ( egy, ḥrj š f "He who is on His Lake"),Forty, Jo. ''Mythology: A Visual Encyclopedia'', Sterling Publishing Co., 2001, p. 84. transcribed in Greek as Harsaphes or Arsaphes ( grc-koi, Ἁρσαφ ...

and he issued a decree ordering the restoration of the long lost practice of making a daily sacrifice of a bull for this god.
Nimlot B is further attested by a statue of unknown provenience now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of

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(ÄS 5791), by two gold bracelets from

Sais Sais ( grc, Σάϊς, cop, Ⲥⲁⲓ) was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile,Mish, Frederick C., Editor in Chief. "Saïs." '' Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary''. 9th ed. Springfield ...

now at the

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(EA 14594-5) and by a kneeling naophore statue of him, found in 1905 by Ahmed Kamal at Leontopolis and now at the

Cairo Museum The Museum of Egyptian Antiquities, known commonly as the Egyptian Museum or the Cairo Museum, in Cairo, Egypt, is home to an extensive collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities. It has 120,000 items, with a representative amount on display ...

(JE 37956).

Henri Gauthier Henri Louis Marie Alexandre Gauthier (19 September 1877 – 1950) was a French Egyptologist and geographer. In 1903 he entered the French Institute of Oriental Archaeology of Cairo. He made extensive excavations at Dra Abu el-Naga and El Qattah ...

, ''Le “Fils royal de Ramses”, Namrat'', in ''ASAE'' 18 (1919), pp. 246–50. His immediate predecessors and successors in the rule of Herakleopolis are unknown; the next known governor of the city was

Nimlot C Nimlot C was a High Priest of Amun at Thebes during the reign of pharaoh Osorkon II of the 22nd Dynasty. Biography From the stela of Pasenhor it is known that Nimlot C was a son of pharaoh Osorkon II and his queen Djedmutesankh (her name is als ...

, who was in charge nearly a century later.Kenneth Kitchen, op. cit., table 16–A.

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Kenneth Kitchen Kenneth Anderson Kitchen (born 1932) is a British biblical scholar, Ancient Near Eastern historian, and Personal and Brunner Professor Emeritus of Egyptology and honorary research fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology, Univ ...

, ''The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC)'', 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, Ancient Egyptian princes People of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian soldiers Berber rulers {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub