#paneb

[kuudere-hime]

[rudjedet]

look I know we all love our shitty copper jokes and those are great and all, but you lot have seriously been sleeping on the absolute menace that is Paneb

among the many crimes of this man, foreman of the workman's village of Deir el-Medina, is making the men under his authority look after his cow for two months because he was too fucking lazy to do it himself, and then spending his time getting drunk a lot in various places

one of which being the tomb of a pharaoh. on wine stolen from that same tomb. while sat on pharaoh's own damn sarcophagus because fuck pharaoh, I guess

here, we've got receipts (Pap. Salt 124, recto I:11):

man was a fucking trainwreck of drunkenness, violence, and exploitation

[rudjedet]

Who is Paneb ?

A chief workman of Deir el-Medina, who was quite probably a short-tempered and violent asshole with little respect for authority unless it was his own.

We have a letter, written by* Amennakht and addressed to the vizier, that contains a very lenghty list of all Paneb's wrongdoings in the village of Deir el-Medina, for the purpose of showing the vizier that Paneb wasn't suited to the office of chief workman. Since Amennakht's brother Neferhotep was chief workman before Paneb. Neferhotep's and Amennakht's father Nebnefer was chief workman before Neferhotep, and thus Amennakht says he should have been made chief workman instead of Paneb. Because of this we should assume at least some personal bias in the painting of Paneb as an absolute maniac. However, we should also consider the length and variance of all these accusations, and realise we can't really dismiss all of it just on the basis of Amennakht's hatred for Paneb. Paneb does disappear from the administrative record after the time of writing of this papyrus, so it is likely that the accusations had weight, and that Paneb was punished.

*it's more likely to be dictated by him to a scribe since the literacy rate in ancient Egypt was about 2%

Now that we've got the disclaimers out of the way, here's a run-down of some of the stunts Paneb pulled:

Bribing the vizier at the time to give him the office of chief, by way of five servants that belonged to Neferhotep

Bribing the head scribe of the village to get out of trouble

Appropriating labour for his own ends, like ordering the workmen to make stuff for him such as a bed.

Theft. From royal work sites, from the other workmen, from the village's storerooms - dude got around. Oil, tools, stone to build columns for his own tomb, doors from the tomb of Seti II, incense, a statue, chariot coverings, etc.

Violence, such as threatening to kill his predecessor Neferhotep and chasing him until Neferhotep locked himself inside his house. Paneb tried to break down the door but when that didn't work, went off in a rage and hit 9 other people. Salient detail: Neferhotep was Paneb's adoptive father, or at the very least charged with his care after the death of Paneb's father when Paneb would have been about 5.

Adultery and possibly sexual assault. He had various sexual acts with married women, but the wording is ambiguous and it's unclear whether or not all of these were consensual. Juicy detail: for at least one of these cases, Paneb's son Apehty is said to have participated.

Complete and utter disregard for authority. As mentioned, Paneb pulled shit like dodging work by making up a sick cow as an excuse.

So when we say Paneb was a dick, we mean it.

[rudjedet]

Hi, weird question… but since you wrote the Paneb translates as “the Lord”, how do you know it’s a name and not a title?

When reading as the lord, it sounds like it might the the collected antics of a whole bunch of people all complaining about their “superior”, not unlike office culture these days.

Since egyptologists have a good reason to say it’s a name, how would you differentiate between a name and a title in this case?

Oh, loads of reasons. For one thing, Paneb already had a title/position (foreman), and often when he's mentioned it will be as "the foreman Paneb". The other foremen are adressed similarly, for example "foreman Hay". Straight off the bat, that rules out that "pA-nb" indicated a title or a mode of address for a superior. Beyond that, his name is featured on attendance lists, where it wouldn't make sense to refer to him with a title while every other workman is mentioned by name. We also have the guy's tomb, where his name features in the usual formulae.

Even if that hadn't been the case, the title "lord" itself wasn't commonly (if at all) written with the article "pA"; it's simply "nb" (though it does get suffixes that specify what this individual was the lord of), and it wasn't used for this particular type of office at any rate. We would see "imy-ra", overseer, rather than "the lord". This, too, makes it highly improbable that "pA-nb" was to be taken literally as the lord (of workmen). It's just not a title or mode of address that follows the Egyptian conventions as we understand them.

And in the most general sense, Paneb is an attested name carried by more individuals than just this asshole.

[rudjedet]

What, if anything, is the etymology of "Paneb"'s name? I know Pharaohs' names usually mean something ("Peace of Ptah" and whatnot), but I have no idea if your average Egyptian worker's name followed the same conventions…

"Regular" Egyptian names absolutely followed the same conventions. The personal names of rulers weren't exclusive to the royal family - on the contrary! there are e.g. a bunch of officials named Senwosret or Amenemhat in the 12th Dynasty (which was ruled by kings either named Senwosret or Amenemhat), and that's not a unicum in Egypt by any stretch. It happened quite a lot. Some people would even be named a sort of well-wish to the king. For example the vizier Antefiqer, whose name means "Antef is excellent", where Antef was the king (though Antefiqer didn't serve as Vizier under king Antef, he was born during his reign).

So ancient Egyptian names always have meaning, and they can range from simple ones like Paneb to lengthy and - for us - complicated ones such as Djedmontuiuefankh. And while Paneb is a relatively short and straightforward name, its meaning is in the case of this particular individual carrying it quite frankly hilarious.

Because Paneb, separated as pa-neb, means "The Lord".

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[the-typhonian]

Accusations against Paneb

http://arce-nc.org/Berens2.htm