Pabasa
The ancient Egyptian noble Pabasa was chief steward of the God's Wife of Amun Nitocris I during the Saite Period.[1] He is buried in tomb , which is located in the El-Assasif, part of the Theban Necropolis, near Thebes.[2]
His sarcophagus was acquired in Paris in 1836 by Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton and was kept at Hamilton Palace until it was given to the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow by the Hamilton Estate Trustees in 1922.[3]
One of Pabasa's grandsons was Pedubast, the chief steward and overseer of Upper Egypt, whose burial was discovered in 2015, located within the tomb TT391 at El-Assasif.[4]
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- ^ Alessia Amenta, Araldo De Luca, Ägyptisches Museum Kairo, National Geographic 2002, pp.228f.
- ^ Jean Leclant, Egypt, Nagel Publishers, 1972, p.537
- ^ RCAHMS reconstruction of Hamilton Palace
- ^ El-Aref, Nevine (August 30, 2015). "The tomb of the 26th dynasty ruler of Upper Egypt uncovered in Assassif, Luxor". Ahram Online. Retrieved August 31, 2015.
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- People of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt
- Ancient Egyptian high stewards
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