# Nebet
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{{Infobox Egyptian dignitary
| Name = Nebet
| egyptian_name=nb:t
| Style = [Vizier](/source/Vizier_(Ancient_Egypt)) of [Egypt](/source/Sixth_Dynasty_of_Egypt)
| Tenure = {{circa}} 2320 BC
| Pharaoh = [Pepi I](/source/Pepi_I_Meryre)
| Spouse = Khui
| Children = {{plainlist|
*[Ankhesenpepi I](/source/Ankhesenpepi_I)
*[Ankhesenpepi II](/source/Ankhesenpepi_II)
*[Djau](/source/Djau)
}}
}}
'''Nebet''' (“Lady”; {{fl.|{{circa}} 2320 BC}}) was created [vizier](/source/Vizier_(Ancient_Egypt)) during the late [Old Kingdom](/source/Old_Kingdom) of [Egypt](/source/Ancient_Egypt) by [King](/source/Pharaoh) [Pepi I](/source/Pepi_I) of the [Sixth Dynasty](/source/Sixth_Dynasty_of_Egypt),[{{Cite journal |last=Garcia |first=Moreno |last2=Carlos |first2=Juan |date=2012-06-12 |title=Deir el-Gabrawi |url=https://escholarship.org/uc/item/99j1g8zh |journal=UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology |language=en |volume=1 |issue=1}}][{{Citation |last=Kanawati |first=Naguib |title=The Vizier Nebet and the royal women of the sixth dynasty |date=2010 |url=https://researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publications/the-vizier-nebet-and-the-royal-women-of-the-sixth-dynasty |work=Thebes and beyond |pages=115–125 |editor-last=Hawass |editor-first=Zahi A. |access-date=2023-12-31 |series=Supplément aux Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Egypte |place=Cairo, Egypt |publisher=Conseil Suprême des Antiquités de l'Egypte |isbn=978-977-704-377-9 |editor2-last=Ikram |editor2-first=Salima}}] who was her son-in-law (and possibly also her nephew).[{{Cite journal |last=McCoskey |first=Allison |date=2020-03-01 |title=Kanawati, Naguib / Swinton, Joyce:Egypt in the Sixth Dynasty: Challenges and responses. Wallasey: Abercromby Press 2018. XIV, 250 S., 39 Bildtaf. £ 45. ISBN 978-1-912246-01-4. |url=https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/olzg-2020-0006/html |journal=Orientalistische Literaturzeitung |language=de |volume=115 |issue=1 |pages=29–31 |doi=10.1515/olzg-2020-0006 |issn=2196-6877|url-access=subscription }}] She is the first recorded female vizier in Ancient Egyptian history; the next was in the [26th Dynasty](/source/Twenty-sixth_Dynasty_of_Egypt).[[Naguib Kanawati](/source/Naguib_Kanawati), ''Conspiracies in the Egyptian Palace: Unis to Pepy I'', London - New York, 2003, p. 173][{{Cite book |last=Lupo |first=Silvia |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.30861/9781407300115 |title=Territorial Appropriation during the Old Kingdom (XXVIIIth-XXIIIrd centuries BC): The royal necropolises and the pyramid towns in Egypt |date=2007 |publisher=University of Michigan Press |isbn=978-1-4073-0011-5 |location=Ann Arbor, MI}}]
She was the wife of the nobleman Khui, who was overseer of the Pyramid City.[{{Cite journal |last=Sameh Shafik |first=Sameh |date=2020-12-01 |title=The provincial policies of Teti, Pepy I and Merenre in Upper Egypt |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijhth.2020.154172 |journal=International Journal of Heritage, Tourism and Hospitality |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=61–72 |doi=10.21608/ijhth.2020.154172 |issn=2636-414X|doi-access=free }}]
Her daughters, the Queens [Ankhesenpepi I](/source/Ankhesenpepi_I) and [Ankhesenpepi II](/source/Ankhesenpepi_II) were, respectively, the mothers of the Kings [Merenre Nemtyemsaf](/source/Merenre_Nemtyemsaf) and [Pepi II](/source/Pepi_II).
Her son [Djau](/source/Djau), who had a tomb in [Abydos](/source/Abydos%2C_Egypt) became vizier for his nephews, the kings.[{{Cite journal |last=Shafik |first=Sameh |date=2021-06-01 |title=Chronology of the Governors of Deir El-Gebrawi Revisited |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.21608/ijthm.2021.177911 |journal=International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=95–108 |doi=10.21608/ijthm.2021.177911 |issn=2682-3632|doi-access=free }}] She is mentioned in his tomb.
Nebet was a contemporary of [Weni the Elder](/source/Weni_the_Elder).