Ibiaw (vizier)
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| Ibiaw[1] in hieroglyphs | ||||
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| Era: 2nd Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC) | ||||
Ibiaw or Ibiau was an
.Attestations
There are no monuments which directly represent him, but he is mentioned as a vizier on three objects: a stele found at
egyptologists
were able to realize a genealogy for Ibiaw:
| Id | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ankhesiref | Ibiaw | Renressonb | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senebhenaf A | Senebhenaf B | Ibetib | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Some other monuments datable to this period refer to one or more dignitaries called Ibiaw. Some egyptologists believe that those objects could refer to the namesake vizier in some earlier stages of his career. Such statements would expand Ibiaw's genealogy:
- One of the two sons of Ibiaw may have been the vizier
- Ibiaw's father may have been the vizier Sobka called Bebi.[4]
- It has even been suggested that vizier Ibiaw later in his life became the namesake king (i.e. Wahibre Ibiaw).[5]
However, Wolfram Grajetzki later pointed out that, since there is no monument citing with certainty some of Ibiaw's earlier titles, such identifications are purely conjectural and remain unproven.[6]
References
- ^ Habachi (1984) p. 118.
- ISBN 3-8053-0496-X, pl. 117a
- ^ Habachi (1984) pp. 119-120.
- ^ a b K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), p. 192.
- ^ William C. Hayes, in The Cambridge Ancient History, 1973, vol. II, part I, p. 51ff.
- ^ W. Grajetzki, Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, London 2009, p. 40.
Bibliography
- Labib Habachi, "The Family of Vizier Ibiˁ and His Place Among the Viziers of the Thirteenth Dynasty", in Studien zur altägyptischen Kultur, 11 (1984), p. 113-126.