Nebankh

Nebanch was an ancient Egyptian high official and one of the best-attested of the 13th Dynasty, who lived around 1700 BC.

Origin

His father was Sobekhotep simple domain administrator, his mother was the mistress of the house Hapyu. His brother was the great scribe of the vizier Dedusobek / Bebi, whose daughter Nubchaes great king 's wife was. One of her brothers was the herald of Thebes Sobekemsaf, in turn, is known from a statue, which is now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Career

Under Neferhotep I. Nebanch appears as king known in the environment of the ruler in five rock inscriptions near Aswan. He is together with the treasurer Senebi called, he was probably used in its management. Under Sobekhotep IV he was then promoted to senior domain administrator and led expeditions of the king in the Wadi Hammamat and Wadi el- Hudi.

His grave

The grave of Nebanch has not yet been found, but it is possible that he was buried in Abydos. There, many objects found with his name. Below, a stele with a hymn, a fragment of a statue and blocks of a lintel. From Nebanch comes also one of the oldest known heart scarabs. This is labeled with the Book of the Dead spell No. 30 and is now in the British Museum. The location of this object is unfortunately unknown.

Prominence in Egyptology

Nebanch further some notoriety among Ägyptologiestudenten and Egyptologists has gained since the song of a stele from Abydos, who dedicated the singer Tjen -aa, the Nebanch, appears as a training text in the famous grammar of Alan Gardiner: