Nebamun
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- Created on: 13-05-17 17:53
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- Personal information
- Had a wife and daughter
- Middle rank grain and scribe accountant
- Nebamun
- The Tomb
- Built around 1400 BC
- Discovered in the 1800s by a grave robber
- The tomb is unknown to archeaolgists
- Hunting painting
- Shows Nebamun hunting by the Nile
- Shows his wife and daughter
- Shows him in a smiting position
- Usually pharaohs or deities would do this.
- The Nile
- The reeds represent rebirth and life
- Nile also represents life, as it is where they would get water and mud brick.
- The meal painting
- It shows Nebamun enjoying his meal
- Shows naked women dancing with wax on their hands.
- Celebrating in honour of Nebamun, like he is a pharaoh or deity
- The garden painting
- Shows Nebamun in a garden
- Shows a pond with Tiapia fish
- Represents rebirth
- Shows a goddess giving fruit to Nebamun
- Should be the other way round.
- Connotes that Nebamun is more powerful than deities
- Should be the other way round.
- Connections
- Meal painting
- Step pyramid shows the Heb- Seb festival
- Garden painting
- Temple of Horus at Edfu shows the Festivial of Victory= hippo
- Apis Bull shows up in the Heb Seb festival. Hatsheput= Red Chapel
- Meal painting
- The Tomb
- From the New Kingdom
- Thought to work and live at Thebes (now Luxor)
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