Nimlot B

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Nimlot B
22nd Dynasty
PharaohShoshenq I
FatherShoshenq I
MotherPatareshnes

Nimlot B, also Nemareth

22nd Dynasty
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Biography

Nimlot was the third son of

Herakleopolis Magna (around 940 BCE) which at the time was a strategic location for the control over Middle Egypt; Nimlot also served as governor of this town. He was very devoted to the local deity Heryshaf and he issued a decree ordering the restoration of the long lost practice of making a daily sacrifice of a bull for this god.[3]

Nimlot B is further attested by a statue of unknown provenience now in the
Cairo Museum (JE 37956).[1]

His immediate predecessors and successors in the rule of Herakleopolis are unknown; the next known governor of the city was Nimlot C, who was in charge nearly a century later.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b Henri Gauthier, Le “Fils royal de Ramses”, Namrat, in ASAE 18 (1919), pp. 246–50.
  2. ^ a b "bracelet". The British Museum. EA14595. Retrieved 2023-01-06. ...inscribed for a man with the Libyan name of Nimlot (also rendered as Nemareth or the like)
  3. ^ Kenneth Kitchen, op. cit., § 256–7.
  4. ^ "Hockerstatue des Nimlot". www.khm.at (in German). Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 5791. Retrieved 2023-01-06.
  5. ^ Kenneth Kitchen, op. cit., table 16–A.

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