Nakhtmin (scribe) explained
Nakhtmin (also written Minnakht) was lector priest of Min in Akhmim.[1] The lector priest Nakhtmin is known from a stela now in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. The stela shows Nakhtmin raising his hands in adoration before an ithyphallic statue of Min. Saleh dates the stela to the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.[2]
The round-topped stela's text provides hymns to Min and several forms of Horus. The text also contains an address to passers-by. Wiedemann (1891) dates the text to the early part of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt.[3]
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Notes and References
- Translation from Rutgers University site The Stela of Min-Nakht (Zagreb Archaeological Museum)
- Janine Monnet Saleh: Les antiquités égyptiennes de Zagreb: Catalogue raisonné des antiquités égyptiennes conservées au Musée Archéologique de Zagreb en Yougoslavie, pp 20-21, Mouton 1970, ISBN 9783112047460, no. 7
- A. Wiedemann: Observations sur quelques stèles funéraires égyptiennes, in: Muséon 1891, 51-3, no. viii, on pl. ii (after 194) (online: https://archive.org/stream/lemuson10soci#page/n207/mode/2up). This reference comes via a PDF version of Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Stelae, Reliefs and Paintings, Griffith Institute. Edited by Malek, Magee, Fleming and Hobby. This edition contains artifacts discussed in the Museon:Journal of Oriental Studies. Link to Topographical Bibliography PDF
