{{Short description|Ancient Egyptian prince}} {{For|other ancient Egyptian people named Nimlot|Nimlot (disambiguation){{!}}Nimlot}} {{Infobox military person | name= Nimlot B | rank = Commander of all the infantry | image = | caption= | allegiance = 22nd Dynasty of Egypt (Shoshenq I) | relations = Shoshenq I (father)<br>Patareshnes (mother) |native_name =<hiero>n:mA-r:V13</hiero>''nm3rṯ''<ref name=gauthier/> }} '''Nimlot B''', also '''Nemareth'''<ref name=bm>{{Cite web|title=bracelet | id = EA14595 |url=https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA14595|access-date=2023-01-06|website=The British Museum|language=en | quote = ...inscribed for a man with the Libyan name of Nimlot (also rendered as Nemareth or the like) }}</ref> (''fl.'' c. 940 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian prince, general and governor during the early 22nd Dynasty.
==Biography== Nimlot was the third son of pharaoh Shoshenq I (after Osorkon I and Iuput A); his mother was the queen Patareshnes. He was appointed ''Commander of all the infantry'' by his father and was stationed in Herakleopolis Magna (around 940 BCE) which at the time was a strategic location for the control over Middle Egypt; Nimlot also served as governor of this town. He was very devoted to the local deity Heryshaf and he issued a decree ordering the restoration of the long lost practice of making a daily sacrifice of a bull for this god.<ref>Kenneth Kitchen, op. cit., § 256–7.</ref><br> Nimlot B is further attested by a statue of unknown provenience now in the Kunsthistorisches Museum of Vienna (ÄS 5791),<ref>{{Cite web|title=Hockerstatue des Nimlot|url=https://www.khm.at/objektdb/detail/322768/ | id = Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 5791 |access-date=2023-01-06 | institution= Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien |website=www.khm.at|language=de}}</ref><ref>Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt''. Thames & Hudson. 2004. {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}}</ref> by two gold bracelets from Sais now at the British Museum (EA 14594-5)<ref name=bm/> and by a kneeling naophore statue of him, found in 1905 by Ahmed Kamal at Leontopolis and now at the Cairo Museum (JE 37956).<ref name=gauthier>Henri Gauthier, ''Le “Fils royal de Ramses”, Namrat'', in ''ASAE'' 18 (1919), pp. 246–50.</ref>
His immediate predecessors and successors in the rule of Herakleopolis are unknown; the next known governor of the city was Nimlot C, who was in charge nearly a century later.<ref>Kenneth Kitchen, op. cit., table 16–A.</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Bibliography== *Kenneth Kitchen, ''The Third Intermediate Period in Egypt (1100–650 BC)'', 1996, Aris & Phillips Limited, Warminster, {{ISBN|0-85668-298-5}}
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