Ibiaw (vizier)

Statuette of Senebhenaf B citing his parents, vizier Ibiaw and Renressonb. Bologna, MCA.
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Ibiaw[1]
in hieroglyphs

Ibiaw or Ibiau was an ancient Egyptian vizier and Chief of the town (i.e. mayor) during the 13th Dynasty, likely under pharaohs Wahibre Ibiaw and/or Merneferre Ay.

Attestations

There are no monuments which directly represents him, but he is mentioned as a vizier on three objects: a stele found at Deir el-Bahari and now exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (22.3.307), another stele found inside the sanctuary of Heqaib at Elephantine,[2] and a statuette probably from the Temple of Osiris at Abydos and now in Bologna (KS 1839). By combining the three monuments, egyptologists were able to realize a genealogy for Ibiaw:

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ankhesiref
 
Ibiaw
 
Renressonb
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Senebhenaf A
 
Senebhenaf B
 
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Some other monuments datable to this period refers to one or more dignitaries called Ibiaw. Some egyptologists believed that those objects could refers to the namesake vizier in some earlier stages of his career. Such statements would expand Ibiaw's genealogy:

However, Wolfram Grajetzki later pointed out that, since there is no monument citing with certainty some of Ibiaw's earlier titles, such identifications are purely conjectural and remain unproven.[6]

References

  1. Habachi (1984) p. 118.
  2. Habachi, Elephantine IV, The Sanctuary of Heqaib, Mainz am Rhein 1985, ISBN 3-8053-0496-X, pl. 117a
  3. Habachi (1984) pp. 119-120.
  4. 1 2 K.S.B. Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period (Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), p. 192.
  5. William C. Hayes, in The Cambridge Ancient History, 1973, vol. II, part I, p. 51ff.
  6. W. Grajetzki, Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, London 2009, p. 40.

Bibliography

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