Sobeknakht (high steward)

For other people with the same name, see Sobeknakht (disambiguation).

Sobeknakht was an ancient Egyptian official with the main title high steward. He was in office in the Middle Kingdom under king Amenemhat I of the 12th Dynasty, around 1975 BC. Sobeknakht is known from a block with a relief, once adorning the chapel of his tomb at Lisht, close to the pyramid of Amenemhat I. Three other blocks with reliefs were found nearby and belonged once perhaps to the tomb of Sobeknakht too, although they do not mention his name. The tomb itself is not yet located.^[1] He is also known from a statue found at Thebes and perhaps from a stela, found at Abydos.^[2]

References

1. Dieter Arnold: Middle Kingdom Tomb Architecture at Lisht, New York 2008, ISBN 978-1-58839-194-0, pp. 85-86, pls. 162-164
2. James P. Allen: The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom, in: Nigel Strudwick, John H. Taylor (editors): The Theban Necropolis, Past, Present and Future, London 2003, ISBN 0714122475, p. 17