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Nakht
Ancient Egypytian scribe / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the 18th Dynasty Egyptian scribe. For the Jewish legal definition of nighttime, see Hebrew calendar § Measurement of hours. For other Egyptian officials with this name, see Nakht (disambiguation).
Nakht was an ancient Egyptian official who held the position of a scribe and astronomer of Amun, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV of the Eighteenth Dynasty. He was buried in the Theban Necropolis in tomb TT52.[1][2]
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Nakht | |
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Scribe and astronomer of Amun | |
![]() Nakht smelling a lotus while being embraced by his wife, Tawy, while also sitting in front of a set of offerings. Tomb TT52, Thebes, Egypt | |
Dynasty | Eighteenth of Egypt |
Pharaoh | Thutmose IV |
Wife | Tawy |
Burial | TT52 |
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