Min was an important

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ian courtier of the

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in office under king

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. Min was

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. Min was the father of the treasurer Sobekhotep and is known from a number of monuments. He is mentioned in the tomb of his son and on one of the statues of the latter. At

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Min had a chapel, as many officials of the New Kingdom had. Min had most likely a tomb at Thebes, that is not yet identified. However, there are

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s with his name coming from Thebes that seem to proof that he had a tomb there. Funerary cones adorned Theban tomb chapels.

Bibliography

*{{cite book, last1=Helck, first1=Wolfgang, title=Zur Verwaltung des Mittleren und Neuen Reichs, year=1957, location=Leiden, Cologne, publisher=Brill

References

Officials of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian treasurers