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This article is about the Ancient Egyptian official. For the Jewish legal definition of nighttime, see Hebrew calendar § Measurement of hours.
Ancient Egyptian women and men wearing kohl, from the tomb of Nakht in Thebes (15th century BC).

Nakht was an Ancient Egyptian official who held the position of a scribe and astronomer of Amun, probably during the reign of Thutmose IV in the Eighteenth Dynasty. He is buried in the Theban Necropolis in tomb TT52.[1][2]

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References

  1. ^ De Garis Davies, N. (1917). The tomb of Nakht at Thebes. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. ^ Porter, B.; Moss, R. L. B.; Burney, E. W. (1960). "Tomb 52. Nakht, Scribe, Astronomer of Amun". Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Volume I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 1: Private Tombs (Second, revised and augmented ed.). Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum. pp. 99−102.
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