Bebi (vizier)

Bebi
Vizier
Stela mentioning a treasurer Bebi, likely Bebi in his early career.
Egyptian name
Tenure	c. 2025 BC
Successor	Dagi
Dynasty	11th Dynasty
Pharaoh	Mentuhotep II

Bebi was an ancient Egyptian vizier under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty.

He is known with certainty only from a relief fragment found in the mortuary temple of the king at Deir el-Bahari. ^[1] The fragment is now in the British Museum. The short caption to the figure of Bebi reads: vizier, zab-official, the one belonging to the curtain Bebi. Bebi might have been the first Middle Kingdom official with that title. His successor was Dagi. Perhaps Bebi started his career as treasurer: indeed, a treasurer with the name Bebi is known from the stela of a minor official called Maati, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc. no. 14.2.7). ^{[2] [3]}

References

1. BM 1906,1013.5; on the BM website
2. H. E. Winlock: The Rise and Fall of the Middle Kingdom in Thebes, New York 1947, p. 5, pl. 2; Allen: The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom, In: n. Strudwick/J. H. Taylor (editors): The Theban Necropolis, p. 22
3. Stela of the Gatekeeper Maati, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Literature

• J.P. Allen: The high officials of the early Middle Kingdom, In: n. Strudwick/J. H. Taylor (editors): The Theban Necropolis, London 2003, p. 22