Nebamun (fl. ) was a middle-ranking official "scribe and grain accountant" during the period of the
New Kingdom
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in
ancient Egypt. He worked at the vast temple complex near
Thebes (now
Luxor
Luxor ( ar, الأقصر, al-ʾuqṣur, lit=the palaces) is a modern city in Upper (southern) Egypt which includes the site of the Ancient Egyptian city of ''Thebes''.
Luxor has frequently been characterized as the "world's greatest open-a ...
) where the state-god
Amun
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was worshipped. 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.
Nebamun is known today because of the 1820 discovery of the richly-decorated
Tomb of Nebamun
The lost Tomb of Nebamun was an ancient Egyptian tomb from the Eighteenth Dynasty located in the Theban Necropolis located on the west bank of the Nile at Thebes (present-day Luxor) in Egypt. The tomb was the source of a number of famous decora ...
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
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where they are now on display.
[ They are considered to be one of that museum's greatest treasures.]
Gallery
File:Tomb of Nebamun.jpg, Fowling scene
File:Musicians and dancers, Tomb of Nebamun.jpg, Dancers and musicians
Image:Le_Jardin_de_Nébamoun.jpg, ''Pond in a Garden'' from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes
File:Tomb of Nebamun, Banquet.jpg, Tomb of Nebamun, Banquet
See also
* List of ancient Egyptian scribes
This is a list of Egyptian scribes, almost exclusively from the ancient Egyptian periods.
The hieroglyph used to signify the scribe, ''to write'', and ''"writings"'', etc., is Gardiner sign Y3, Y3 from the category of: 'writings, games, & mu ...
References
External links
Nebamun
Illustrated description of tomb and its erotic dancers
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Ancient Egyptian scribes
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