Aabeni (high steward)

Aabeni was an ancient Egyptian official with the title high steward. He was one of the most important officials at the royal court in the early Thirteenth Dynasty.

Aabeni (Aabni)
High steward
Green glazed faience weight, inscribed for the high Steward Aabeni
Dynastyearly 13th dynasty

Attestations

Aabeni is known from a number of monuments.[1]

Papyrus Boulaq 18

His most important attestation is in the Papyrus Boulaq 18.[2] This papyrus is an account of the Theban palace dating to the Thirteenth Dynasty where he appears in several lists of officials. The exact dating of Papyrus Boulaq 18 is dispute in Egyptology. A queen Aya is mentioned there. [3] therefore it remains open under which king Aabni served, but in the papyrus also appears the vizier Ankhu.

Abydos

At Abydos, Aabeni is known from a glazed faience weight found and a stela.

See other contemporaries

Ankhu (vizier) Aya (queen)

References
  1. https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/4/person/2111
  2. Wolfram Grajetzki: Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, London 2009 p. 77 ISBN 978-0-7156-3745-6
  3. 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. 319
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