Nebamun

Pond in a Garden from the Tomb of Nebamun, Thebes.

Nebamun was a middle-ranking official "scribe and grain accountant" during the period of the New Kingdom in ancient Egypt. He is thought to have lived circa 1350 BCE and worked at the vast temple complex near Thebes (now Luxor) where the state-god Amun 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.^[1]

Nebamun is 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.^[2][3]

Gallery

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  Fowling scene

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  Dancers and musicians

References

1. Richard Parkinson, The Painted Tomb Chapel of Nebamun, British Museum Press, 2008 at 39
2. Parkinson, op cit
3. British Museum Room 61 http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/galleries/ancient_egypt/room_61_tomb-chapel_nebamun.aspx

External links

This article is about an item held in the British Museum. The object reference is Room 61.