Nebamon ( Egyptian. Nb Jmn - “My lord Amon ”) is an ancient Egyptian middle-level official, “a scribe and a grain scribe” in the New Kingdom period. Presumably he lived in ca. 1400-1350 BC er (The years of the reign of Pharaoh Thutmos IV or Amenhotep III ) and worked in the temple complex of Amon near Thebes (modern Luxor ) [1]
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Biography
The full Nebamon name on all images is damaged and difficult to restore. His title suggests that he was associated with an important religious cult center of the period - the Karnak temple . Nebamon held a low position in the temple hierarchy because he was not a guard. Presumably, he was responsible for the distribution of grain, as well as the collection and delivery of grain belonging to Pharaoh [1] .
The stylized execution of the drawings relates the period of his life to the years of the reign of Thutmosis IV (ca. 1397–1388 BCE) or Amenhotep III (ca. 1388–1351 BCE), and also reveals similarity with the images in the tombs of Nakhta ( TT52 ) and Menna ( TT69 ), which may indicate that one artist or artists of the same school were painting these tombs [1] .
Tomb
Today, Nebamon is famous for its richly decorated tomb, discovered by Giovanni d'Atanasi in 1820 at the Theban necropolis . At the request of Henry Salt, 11 essential fragments of the painting were removed from the tomb and taken to the British Museum . They are of great interest and importance of ancient Egyptian art [2] . After a long period of conservation and restoration works, paintings are again available from 2009 to the public [3] . Other fragments of the tomb are in the exposition of the Berlin Egyptian Museum , the Lyon Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Calvet in Avignon [4] .
Since the discovery of the tomb was not documented, it is not possible to determine its location to this day.
Nebamon inspects shipments
Counting geese
Counting cows
Banquet Scene
Musicians and dancers
Garden pool
Cat in the scene of hunting Nebamon
In culture
Various scenes from the tombs were used by contemporary artists. Lawrence Alma-Tadema included a scene with geese in his picture “Joseph - the Pharaoh’s supervisor of granaries” (1874), and Paul Gauguin used part of the banquet scene as a composition plan in his “Ta Matete” (1892) [5] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 RB Parkinson. The Painted Tomb-chapel of Nebamun . - British Museum Press, 2008. - P. 39—41. - 156 s. - ISBN 9780714119793 .
- ↑ Salvat, Juan. Historia del arte (isp.) . - Barcelona: Salvat Editores, 1970. - T. 1. - p. 320. - ISBN 8434532433 .
- ↑ The conservation and redisplay of the Nebamun Wall paintings (English) . British Museum. The appeal date is May 23, 2019.
- ↑ Richard Parkinson. The Painted Tomb-Chapel of Nebamun. Masterpieces of Egyptian art in the British Museum. - London: British Museum Press, 2008. - p. 8. - ISBN 978-0-7141-1979-3 .
- ↑ Philip McCouat. Lost masterpieces of Egyptian art from the Nebamun tomb-chhapel // Journal of Art in Society.
Links
- Egyptian life and death of the tomb-chapel of Nebamun (Room 61) . British Museum .