Nebt

Nebt was the princess of Eleventh Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, c. 2050 BC. A noblewoman of considerable agency and status, Nebt was the inheritress of estates on Elephantine Island, at Aswan in the far south of Egypt. She was a patronne of the arts and held a band of scholars in her help. Her girl, who shared her interests and who established an serious collecting of forms of art, was one of  the  wives  of  King Nebhepetre Montuhotep II.

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