Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom
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nb-swmn.w

Spellings

“the Lord of Sumenu”

Name types:
direct genitival phrase, divine epithet used as personal name
Note:
An epithet of Sobek used as a personal name. Cf. nb-rꜣ-sḥwj, nb-jw-n-šꜣ
Usage period:
13th - 17th Dyn.
Gender:
both
Is a possible reading of:
nb-sw nb sw w
References:
Ranke no.: I, 186.8, I, 186.9, I, 187.3, II, 296.25, II, 315.12, II, 297.2 / TLA no.: 700206, 700205, 703121, 703122, 703146, 713211, 713754, 713233
Bibliography:
Rosati Castellucci 1980, no. 66; Thirion 1986, 132

Spellings & Attestations

nb:sw*w-T1\R90

  1. m Stela Amherst 445

    Title:
    s n dpt ꜥꜣ
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Sekhemkara

  2. m Seal/sealing Berlin ÄM 32513

    Title:
    sšrj nsw
    Date:
    12th - 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    Martin 679-681 (weak)

  3. m Seal/sealing Berlin ÄM 32514

    Title:
    sšrj nsw
    Provenance:
    Faiyum
    Date:
    mid- to late 13th Dynasty, from Neferhotep I onward
    Dossier:
    Martin 679-681 (weak)

  4. m Stela BM EA930

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ pr; ḥsb (n) jt
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  5. m Statue Cairo CG 957

    Title:
    nḫt-ḫrw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  6. m Stela Cairo CG 20170

    Title:
    sꜣb; rꜣ-nḫn
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

  7. m Stela Cairo CG 20170

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

  8. m Stela Cairo CG 20426

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu
    Dossier:
    PD 302 (accepted)

  9. f Stela Cairo CG 20640

    Title:
    nbt pr
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  10. m Stela Cairo CG 20742

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ st
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    Amenemhat IV–early 13th Dyn.

  11. m Seal/sealing CNG 93, no. 1947

    Title:
    sšrj nsw
    Date:
    late 13th Dyn. from Sobekhotep IV onward
    Dossier:
    Martin 679-681 (weak)

  12. m Stela Fitzwilliam E.207.1900

    Title:
    ꜥꜣm
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    Amenemhat IV–early 13th Dyn.

  13. m Stela Leiden AP 34

    Title:
    ṯꜣw n sꜣtw
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  14. m Stela Louvre E 20002

    Title:
    jrj-ꜥt n ꜥt ḥnkwt
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    late 12th Dyn. - early 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 300 (accepted)

  15. m Seal/sealing Martin 672

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ wꜣḏjw

  16. m Seal/sealing Mirgissa 3-72 (Q 321)

    Title:
    ḫtmw ẖrj-ꜥ n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt
    Provenance:
    Mirgissa
    Dossier:
    jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt nb-swmnw (weak)

  17. m Seal/sealing Torino Cat. 4826

    Title:
    sšrj nsw
    Date:
    12th - 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    Martin 679-681 (weak)

  18. m Stela Tübingen 462

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    Neferhotep I - Sobekhotep IV

  19. m Stela UC 14457

    Title:
    sꜣb; rꜣ-nḫn
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

  20. m Stela Vaticano 22784

    Title:
    jmj-ḫt; sꜣ-prw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu
    Dossier:
    PD 303 (accepted)

  21. m Seal/sealing Wegner, Mortuary Temple, fig. 158 (63)

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ (?) n njwt
    Provenance:
    Abydos

  22. m Statue Wilbour MSS 2C, 43

    Title:
    ꜣṯw n ṯt ḥqꜣ
    Date:
    late 13th - 17th Dyn.

nb-sw-T1\R90

  1. m Seal/sealing Berlin ÄM 32512

    Title:
    sꜣb; jmj-rꜣ pr
    Provenance:
    Asyut
    Date:
    13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

  2. m Stela Bolton 1920.10:12

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Tod
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

  3. m Receptacle/vessel Boston 20.1292

    Title:
    jtj-nṯr
    Provenance:
    Kerma
    Date:
    not earlier than Amenemhat IV

  4. m Stela Cairo CG 20093

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    13th - 17th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 304 (weak)

  5. m Stela Cairo CG 20418

    Title:
    bq-?
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    not earlier than Amenemhat IV

  6. m Stela Cairo CG 20640

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  7. m Stela Cairo CG 20640

    Title:
    jmj-ḫt
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  8. m Stela Cairo JE 52453

    Title:
    sꜣb
    Provenance:
    Karnak
    Date:
    Nebirirau swꜣḏ-n-rꜥ nb-jrj-r-ꜣw
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

  9. m Stela Firenze 2553

    Title:
    sš wr n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt
    Provenance:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  10. m Seal/sealing Fribourg ÄS 1983.1630

    Title:
    ḫtmw-bjtj; jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  11. f Stela Liverpool GM E.26

    Title:
    ẖkrt-nsw
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    SIP

  12. m Stela Madrid 1999/99/4

    Title:
    ḫtmw-bjtj; jmj-rꜣ ḫtmtjw
    Date:
    Sankhptah sḥqꜣ.n-rꜥ sꜥnḫ-ptḥ
    Dossier:
    DAE 101 (weak)

  13. m Stela Manchester 4424

    Title:
    jmj-st-ꜥ n [...]; jmj-st-ꜥ
    Provenance:
    Deir el-Bahri

  14. m Seal/sealing Mirgissa 3-73 (Q 2)

    Title:
    sš (n) ḫtmt
    Provenance:
    Mirgissa

  15. m Seal/sealing Mirgissa 3-221 (Q 362)

    Title:
    [...]n mswt-nṯr
    Provenance:
    Mirgissa

  16. m Rock inscription Petrie, Season, no. 270

    Title:
    jrj-ꜥt n ꜥt ḥnkwt
    Provenance:
    Aswan
    Date:
    late 12th Dyn. - early 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 300 (accepted)

  17. m Stela Washington A 279281

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu
    Dossier:
    PD 302 (accepted)

nb-sw-w-T1

  1. m Stela Cairo CG 20159

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    early 13th Dyn.

  2. m Stela Cairo CG 20170

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

  3. m Stela Cairo CG 20434

    Title:
    jmj-ꜥ
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    mid- to late 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 299 (weak)

  4. m Stela Cairo CG 20677

    Title:
    sš n mšꜥ
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    Neferhotep I - Sobekhotep IV

  5. m Seal/sealing Cairo JE 75041

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Origin:
    SUE
    Date:
    mid- to late 13th Dynasty, from Neferhotep I onward

  6. m Receptacle/vessel Firenze 2270

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Provenance:
    Saqqara
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    smsw hꜣjjt nb-swmnw (accepted)

  7. m Seal/sealing Jerusalem 76.31.84

    Title:
    jrj-ꜥt n ḥnkwt
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    late 12th Dyn. - early 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 300 (weak)

  8. m Seal/sealing JFF Ancient Art, Trocadero 1276770 (Martin 673)

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ pr; ḥsb (n) ꜥḥꜥw
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

  9. m Stela Louvre C 13

    Title:
    ḫtmw-bjtj; sš ꜥ n nsw n ḫft-ḥr
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th Dyn.

  10. m Stela Louvre E 20150

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    smsw hꜣjjt nb-swmnw (accepted)

  11. m Seal/sealing Mirgissa 3-139 (Q 239)

    Title:
    sḫm-ꜥ
    Provenance:
    Mirgissa

  12. m Seal/sealing Moscow I, 1а 2153

    Title:
    jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt
    Date:
    12th - 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt nb-swmnw (weak)

  13. m Stela Ny Carlsberg ÆIN 964

    Title:
    ḥrj n tm
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 301 (accepted)

  14. m Stela Roccati, Gs Berlev, no. 1

    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

  15. m Stela Rodin 982

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    smsw hꜣjjt nb-swmnw (accepted)

  16. m Seal/sealing UC 26344

    Title:
    jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt
    Provenance:
    Naqada
    Dossier:
    jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt nb-swmnw (weak)

nb-sw-w-mn:n:nw-w

  1. m Stela Avignon A 3

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 304 (accepted)

  2. m Stela Berlin ÄM 13721

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Provenance:
    Quban
    Date:
    not earlier than Amenemhat IV

  3. m Stela Cairo CG 20015

    Title:
    jrj-ḥbsw
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

  4. m Stela Cairo CG 20117

    Title:
    šmsw
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

  5. m Stela Cairo CG 20610

    Title:
    šmsw
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    mid- to late 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 299 (weak)

  6. m Stela Cairo CG 20610

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    mid- to late 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 298 (weak)

  7. m Stela Cairo CG 20642

    Provenance:
    Rizeikat
    Production place:
    Rizeikat
    Date:
    SIP

  8. m Stela Dublin UCD 1360

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ st n ꜥt ḥnqt
    Production place:
    MFR
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

  9. m Rock inscription FSN 38

    Provenance:
    Abd el-Qadir
    Date:
    not earlier than Amenemhat IV

  10. m Stela Khartoum 370

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Provenance:
    Buhen
    Date:
    SIP

  11. m Stela MMA 63.154

    Title:
    ḥrj (n) tm
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    SUE
    Date:
    13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 301 (accepted)

  12. m Hieratic text P. Boulaq 18, larger manuscript

    Provenance:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu

  13. m Stela Simpson, Heka-Nefer, 50-51 fig. 41

    Title:
    [?]w
    Provenance:
    Toshka

  14. m Hieratic text UC 32099 A pt, C + 32100 B + 32103 Diii

    Title:
    [...] w
    Provenance:
    Lahun
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

  15. m Hieratic text UC 32209

    Title:
    [...]tj
    Provenance:
    Lahun
    Date:
    late 12th - 13th Dyn.

nb:z-w-mn:n-nw-w-

  1. m Hieratic text P. Boulaq 18, larger manuscript

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Provenance:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu

  2. m Hieratic text P. Boulaq 18, larger manuscript

    Title:
    jrj smjjw
    Provenance:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu

  3. m Hieratic text P. Boulaq 18, larger manuscript

    Title:
    jmj-ḫt; sꜣ-prw
    Provenance:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu

nb-sw-w-//

  1. m Stela UC 14457

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

  2. f Stela UC 14457

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb-sw-w-mn-nw&w

  1. m Stela Cairo CG 20045

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    NUELE
    Date:
    late 12th Dyn.

  2. m Stela Rio de Janeiro 641 [2431]

    Date:
    13th Dyn.

// w mn:n nw w

  1. m Stela Berlin ÄM 13721

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ[-n-njwt]
    Provenance:
    Quban
    Date:
    not earlier than Amenemhat IV
    Dossier:
    PD 298 (weak)

M22-T1\R90-nb

  1. m Seal/sealing Cairo JE 75082

    Title:
    ḫtmw-bjtj; jmj-rꜣ ḫtmtjw; sḏm šnꜥw
    Date:
    Sankhptah sḥqꜣ.n-rꜥ sꜥnḫ-ptḥ
    Dossier:
    DAE 101 (weak)

nb#13 // //

  1. m Stela Bolton 1920.10:12

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Tod
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb sw m mn:n

  1. m Stela Cairo CG 20746

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Date:
    SIP

nb-sw-w-R22

  1. m Stela Wien ÄS 163

    Title:
    ḥrj (n) tm
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    Sobekhotep III sḫm-rꜥ swꜣḏ-ṯꜣwj sbk-ḥtp

nb-sw-w-T1:n

  1. m Stela Cairo CG 20305

    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu

nb-sw-w-T1:niwt

  1. m Stela Wien ÄS 172

    Title:
    wdpw; jrj jꜥḥ
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

nb-sw-w-T1:nw*niwt

  1. f Stela UC 14457

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb-sw-w-mn:n-T-w (alternative reading: nb-swmnṯ.w)

  1. m Stela Wien ÄS 180

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 304 (accepted)

nb sw w mn:n:nw*/

  1. m Stela Cairo CG 20716

    Title:
    [..]ꜥ pr [...] n pr-ḥḏ
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    NUELE
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senebsumai

nb sw w mn:n nw w T1\R90

  1. m Stela Bolton 1920.10:12

    Title:
    sꜣb; rꜣ-nḫn
    Provenance:
    Abydos
    Origin:
    Tod
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

nb sw w mn:n:nw*niwt w

  1. m Stela Hermitage 1078

    Title:
    jmj-ḫt; sꜣ-prw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu
    Dossier:
    PD 303 (accepted)

nb sw w mn:n:nw T1\R90

  1. m Stela Clère MSS neg. T 504/60

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ pr n šnꜥw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn.

nb-sw-w-mn:T (alternative reading: nb-swmnṯ.w)

  1. m Stela Wien ÄS 180

    Title:
    wr mḏw šmꜥw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP
    Dossier:
    PD 304 (accepted)

nb sw w mn:nw

  1. m Rock inscription FSN 527

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ n ṯt ḥqꜣ
    Provenance:
    Semna
    Date:
    mid-12th Dyn. - 13th Dyn.

nb sw w mn:nw niwt

  1. m Stela Liverpool WM M.13824

    Title:
    ḥrj-pr
    Date:
    12th - 17th Dyn.

nb sw iwn w

  1. m Seal/sealing BM EA40729

    Title:
    sꜣ-prw
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Ankhu
    Dossier:
    PD 303 (accepted)

nb sw T1

  1. m Stela BM EA1348

    Title:
    sꜣb; rꜣ-nḫn
    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    SUE
    Date:
    Iaib wꜣḥ-jb-rꜥ jꜥ-jb
    Dossier:
    PD 306 (weak)

nb-sw\-T1\R90-w

  1. m Stela Athens 2064

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb sw T1\R90 w

  1. m Seal/sealing Aberdeen ABDUA:81202

    Title:
    jrj-ꜥt n ꜥt ḥnkwt
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    late 12th Dyn. - early 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 300 (weak)

nb-sw-T1\R90-w-//

  1. m Stela UC 14452

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Origin:
    SUE
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb-sw-T1\R90-niwt-t

  1. m Stela Cairo JE 35897

    Provenance:
    Asfun
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.

nb sw T1\R90 nw

  1. m Stela Faheed, EJARS 1.2, 89–96

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    late 13th - 16th Dyn.

nb-sw-T1\R90-nw-niwt

  1. m Stela UC 14413

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Date:
    SIP

nb:z-mn:n:w-w

  1. m Rock inscription FSN 384

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Provenance:
    Kumma
    Date:
    late 12th - 13th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 298 (weak)

nb:z mn:n nw w

  1. m Stela BM EA362

    Title:
    ꜥnḫ-n-njwt
    Date:
    late 13th - 17th Dyn.
    Dossier:
    PD 298 (weak)

nb-s

  1. m Stela Leiden V. L. D. J. 2

    Title:
    jtj-nṯr n sbk šdtj
    Origin:
    MFR
    Date:
    13th Dyn., Senbi

nb s w mn:n w&nw

  1. m Seal/sealing UC 11355

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ šnꜥw
    Provenance:
    Haraga

nb:T1-w-sw\

  1. f Stela Athens 2064

    Origin:
    Thebes
    Production place:
    Thebes
    Date:
    SIP

nb-T1\R90-nw:Z1

  1. m Stela Louvre C 111

    Origin:
    MFR
    Production place:
    Elephantine
    Date:
    SIP

nb:Z1 sw T1

  1. m Stela Wiedemann, PSBA 9, 191-192

    Title:
    smsw hꜣjjt
    Origin:
    SUE
    Date:
    13th - 17th Dyn.

generic

  1. m Seal/sealing Sotheby’s London, 11.07.1977, no. 8 (2)

    Title:
    jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt; [?]

Dossiers (multiple attestations of the same persons)

DAE 101: attestations 34, 79

Martin 679-681: attestations 2, 3, 11, 17

PD 298: attestations 61, 78, 105, 106

PD 299: attestations 42, 60

PD 300: attestations 14, 38, 46, 100

PD 301: attestations 52, 66

PD 302: attestations 8, 39

PD 303: attestations 20, 92, 97

PD 304: attestations 26, 56, 88, 94

PD 305

PD 306: attestations 6, 19, 23, 30, 91, 98

jdnw n jmj-rꜣ ḫtmt nb-swmnw: attestations 16, 51, 55

smsw hꜣjjt nb-swmnw: attestations 45, 49, 54