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Nebamun bore the highest ranking title jrj-p"t h3tj-" member of the elíte, foremost
of action’.** This means that he moved in the highest circles in the royal court and
society. Besides his functional titles, biographical titles as mh-jb mnh n nb 13.wj ‘excellent
confidant of the lord of the Two Lands’, hsjj n ntr nfr ‘favoured of the good god’ and
hsjj n nswt ‘favoured of the king’ also prove his close relationship and trusted position
with the ruler. It cannot be ascertained when he acquired the highest ranking title,
however, it can be suggested that he achieved his distinguished position by himself,
since his family background implies an origin of lower social class. His father was
Tetiresu, without any data on his titles, his mother was Ipu, who was lady of the house,
just like his wife, Resti. Davies attempted to draw some conclusions regarding the fam¬
ily relationships between Nebamun and Montuherkhepeshef, based on the adjacent
location of their tombs and the similarities of the names of some family members. He
proposed the possibility that the son of Montuherkhepeshef might have married to the
daughter of Nebamun.*” Nevertheless, this kind of relationship between the two fam¬
ilies can be neither contradicted nor confirmed.
Nothing can be established geographically of his origin, although his name contain¬
ing the name of Amun, the main deity of the city, may refer to a Theban origin, where
his burial place can be found as well. His place of function, however, could have been in
the northern administrative centre, Memphis, if the necessity of his being in the imme¬
diate vicinity of the king and his family is taken into consideration on the one hand, and
on the other hand, his title ‘overseer of the royal boats’, surmising a direct connection
with the harbour and storage facilities, which were located at this time at Perunefer,
founded by Thutmose III.
Nebamun was not the only one who fulfilled the position of ‘royal wb3’ during his
career. One of his colleagues was Suemniut, who held this office under Hatshepsut and
Thutmose III, and who has already been mentioned above. Besides, Nebamun must
have been acquainted with other persons who held this office during the reign of Thut¬
mose III, however, the precise date cannot be ascertained either for the end of Nebamun’s
career nor for the beginning of that of the other ‘royal wb3s’, who are discussed below.
® For the ranking titles, see Baer, 1974, 2-8; Grajetzki, 2000, 220-226; Grajetzki, 2009, 5-6.
2 Davies, 1913, 5-6, note 3.
* Perunefer itself was also a royal estate during the Thutmosid Period, see Gnirs, 2013, 654; Bietak, 2017,
65; and especially for the location of Perunefer, see Bietak, 2009a; Bietak, 2009b; Bietak, 2017.