Bebi (vizier)
Egyptian vizier under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty
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Bebi was an ancient Egyptian vizier under king Mentuhotep II in the Eleventh Dynasty.
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| Vizier of Egypt | |||||
Stela mentioning a treasurer Bebi, likely Bebi in his early career. | |||||
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| Tenure | c. 2025 BC | ||||
| Successor | Dagi | ||||
| Dynasty | 11th Dynasty | ||||
| Pharaoh | Mentuhotep II | ||||
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]