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Part of a group statue depicting Nakhtmin

Nakhtmin was a royal scribe and army general under Tutankhamun and his successor Ay. Nakhtmin was heir apparent, and possibly the son of Ay, but was supplanted by Horemheb, who may have had his statue destroyed.

The statue with the inscription has suffered extensive damage. Only two pieces remain, the head and shoulders of Nakhtmin and the upper part of the body and head of his wife.

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Luxor Museum. JE 31630 (CG 779 A)

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Tomb of Nakhtmin, Abusir, Egypt.

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So Horemheb expunged all the records he could of his predecessors starting with Akhenaten. How come more records survived from the reigns of Akhenaten and Tutankhamun than from the reigns of Smenkhkare, Neferneferuaten, Ay, and the hypothetical pharaoh who might've ruled in between Ay and Horemheb? Was Horemheb, like, extra thorough with records of Ay because Ay had beaten him to the throne the first time around?

Hi there, thanks for the ask! The answer to this is two-fold: Firstly, and most simply, Akhenaten and Tutankhamun had much longer reigns than Smenkhkare, Neferneferuaten, and Ay. Akhenaten reigned 17 years and Tutankhamun reigned 9, while Smenkhkare reigned about a year, Neferneferuaten about 3 (based on the Pere graffiti), and Ay reigned 4 years. None of these pharaohs were building on the same scale of Akhenaten either; Tutankhamun mostly completed projects left unfinished by Amenhotep III. Very little architectural evidence from his reign has survived; if it wasn’t for the discovery of his tomb our knowledge of him would basically be limited to some fragmentary statues, small scale building projects, ring bezels, and his embalming cache.  Secondly, wholesale recycling. Horemheb’s dismantling of Akhenaten’s buildings at Karnak accidentally preserved them. The talatat blocks that made them so fast to build made them just as quick to dismantle and they were used instead of rubble fill inside the pylons Horemheb constructed at Karnak. This unintentionally kept them safe and sound for thousands of years - whole sections of walls are reassembled in the Luxor Museum. Anything that couldn’t be easily reused, such as the Karnak colossi, were buried. Amarna was still in use during the reign of Horemheb, based on ring bezels, and the dismantling of the city was largely undertaken by Rameses II, where the talatat were recycling into projects across the river at Hermopolis. They survived for the same reasons as the blocks at Karnak. What was left at Amarna was preserved because it was a virgin site that was not re-occupied in any major way in antiquity.

Horemheb’s erasures of earlier kings with especial attention to Ay due to Ay beating Horemheb to the throne certainly makes a good story doesn’t it? Ay’s cartouche was pretty thoroughly erased and his images hacked from his tomb. The sarcophagus was smashed but they entirely missed the cartouches on the entirely intact lid which was recovered from the debris on the floor during Otto Schaden’s clearance of the tomb in the 1970s. This to me indicates that these erasures might belong to the reign of a later king, likely early 19th Dynasty. Horemheb usurped Ay’s mortuary temple and statues (some of which Ay had usurped from Tutankhamun). Much like with the erasures of Hatshepsut, I don’t think the more vicious ones, such as the desecration of his tomb, were necessarily committed by the immediate successor, but by slightly later kings. This is just my personal opinion though.

Lastly, I’m not aware of any hypothetical pharaoh between Ay and Horemheb. Nakhtmin is thought to be Ay’s chosen successor but there is no evidence that he ever took the throne.

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‏‎عثر هوارد كارتر داخل مقبرة الملك توت عنخ آمون على ثلاثة تماثيل من الأوشبتي في صندوق على شكل مقصورة، يمثلون الملك وهو يرتدي تاج خبرش أو التاج الأزرق المزين بحية الكوبرا، وهو تاج مرتبط بالحرب. يُمثل التمثال المصنوع من الخشب، الملك واقفًا ويديه متقاطعتين، تمسك أحدهما بالصولجان، والأخرى بالمذبة. وكُتب نص من التعاويذ، يبدأ من الخصر حتى نهاية التمثال. ومن المثير للاهتمام أن باطن القدمين يحتويان على نقش آخر يذكر أن التمثال كان هبة من أحد قادة الجيش ويُدعى نخت-مين. #١٠٠_عام_توت_عنخ_آمون #آثار_رائعة Carter found three shabtis in a shrine-shaped box within the tomb. This example represents the king wearing a khepresh or blue crown, the headdress associated with war. The figure’s face is delicately carved with added painted details. The king’s hands are crossed and hold a crook and a flail in each hand. Two vertical lines of spells are carved from the waist down. Interestingly, the soles of the feet contain another inscription mentioning that the figure was a gift from one of the king’s generals called Nakhtmin. #100yearsTutankhamun #WonderfulThings‎‏ (في ‏‎Egypt‎‏) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkjfVnwL8PF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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   BIG CROSS - I WORKMAN NESAMUN SON OF SCRIBE OF THE SILVER HOUSE NAKHTMIN DREW THIS BIG DICK ON THIS HERE WALL   

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Face of the wife of Nakhtmin by Merja Attia on Flickr.

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The Amarnan Kings, Book 5: Scarab-Horemheb

The Amarnan Kings, Book 5: Scarab-Horemheb

Set in Egypt of the 14th century B.C.E. and piecing together a mosaic of the reigns of the five Amarnan kings, threaded through by the memories of princess Beketaten-Scarab, a tapestry unfolds of the royal figures lost in the mists of antiquity.

  The Amarnan Kings, Book 5: Scarab-Horemheb

General Horemheb has taken control after the death of Ay and Nakhtmin. Forcing Scarab to marry him, he…

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Egyptian Museum displays double statue of Nakhtmin, his wife at main hall

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Statue of wife of Nakhtmin

New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, ca. 1353-1292 BC. Sharm El Sheikh Museum. CG 779B

The statue of the wife of Nakhtmin is one of the most elegantly sculptured women figures from ancient Egypt. She is depicted wearing a transparent garment of fine, pleated linen and a wig with a band of petals with a blooming lotus flower in the center.

In her left hand she holds a menat necklace, which is associated with the goddess Hathor. On the back in hieroglyphs the titles of her husband general Nakhtmin are engraved as it was originally a statue of the couple.

Nakhtmin was a royal scribe and army general under Tutankhamun and his successor Ay. Nakhtmin was heir apparent, and possibly the son of Ay, but was supplanted by Horemheb, who may have had his statue destroyed.

The statue with the inscription has suffered extensive damage. Only two pieces remain, the head and shoulders of Nakhtmin and the upper part of the body and head of his wife.

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There he stood - the first man in this strange country who ever showed kindness to her. Tadukhipa still remembered the boy he was almost ten years ago. She still remembered the girl she was then. When looking at her own refection on the water, she now saw a woman grown and when looking at him she saw the man she never saw before...

Tadukhipa and Nakhtmin.

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Statue of General Nakhtmin’s Wife This statue originally formed a double one with what is left of the husband, a head, now in Luxor Museum. She is wearing transparent dress and holds a bead necklace in her right hand, which relates to Hathor, goddess of love and beauty. Her wig is composed of curly hair kept together by two bands, the upper one decorated with lotus petals and a frontal lotus flower. New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. CG 779B #egyptology_misr #Egypte #Agypten #Egipt #Egipto #Egitto #Египет #مصر #मिस्र #エジプト #埃及 #Egypten #Visit_Egypt #discover_Egypt #Experience_Egypt #diving  #socialmedia #egypt #iloveegypt #luxor #karnak #mylifesamovie #mylifesatravelmovie #travelblog #travelblogger #solotravel #wanderlust #gopro #egyptology #ancientegypt (at Egyptian Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5TBhQCFypZ/?igshid=1xnqgp4i4vm7v

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Statue of General Nakhtmin Part of a group statue depicting Nakhtmin, a royal scribe and army general under Tutankhamun and his successor Ay. His facial characteristics are influenced by the Amarna Period. Nakhtmin was heir apparent, and possibly the son of Ay, but was supplanted by Horemheb, who may have had his statue destroyed. New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Luxor Museum. #egyptology_misr #Egypte #Agypten #Egipt #Egipto #Egitto #Египет #مصر #मिस्र #エジプト #埃及 #Egypten #Visit_Egypt #discover_Egypt #Experience_Egypt #diving  #socialmedia #egypt #iloveegypt #luxor #karnak #mylifesamovie #mylifesatravelmovie #travelblog #travelblogger #solotravel #wanderlust #gopro #egyptology #ancientegypt (at Luxor Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5TBXU-FI58/?igshid=eq53rn2e4a5s

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Statue of General Nakhtmin’s Wife This statue originally formed a double one with what is left of the husband, a head, now in Luxor Museum. She is wearing transparent dress and holds a bead necklace in her right hand, which relates to Hathor, goddess of love and beauty. Her wig is composed of curly hair kept together by two bands, the upper one decorated with lotus petals and a frontal lotus flower. New Kingdom, late 18th Dynasty, reign of Tutankhamun, ca. 1332-1323 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #egyptology_misr #Egypte #Agypten #Egipt #Egipto #Egitto #Египет #مصر #मिस्र #エジプト #埃及 #Egypten #Visit_Egypt #discover_Egypt #Experience_Egypt #diving  #socialmedia #egypt #iloveegypt #luxor #karnak #mylifesamovie #mylifesatravelmovie #travelblog #travelblogger #solotravel #wanderlust #gopro #egyptology #ancientegypt (at Egyptian Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3GBkZEFPzQ/?igshid=130dl0u7o97q5