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Ch.2 Docs. Paneb, an Egyptian Troublemaker


Summary:
The document I read called, "Paneb, an Egyptian Troublemaker", started off with Paneb as a Egyptian boy who was adopted into a tomb making family. He had really intense fights with his adopted father, Neferhotep. He grew up and got married and had a very large family. He would often cheat on his wife. He would cheat with other married women, and was involved in rape. His son was involved too. Paneb was very controlling and made other people around him do everything for him like make his bed, feed his oxen, and weave his baskets that were for his own personal use. His long time rival, Amennakht, gathered up enough evidence to get him in trouble for all his crimes. Paneb then just vanished.


Questions:
Since most of the evidence against Paneb comes from his archrival, historians should not grant very much weight to this because he was against Paneb, therefore everything he is going to have to say about him is going to be completely biased. You can expect to get a good neutral explanation from someone who basically hates the other person.

If it were written from Penab's viewpoint, I think it would be more of Amennakht attacking Penab. Like Penab would be acting as the "victim" and Amennakht is just trying to get him in trouble.

The perspectives on Egypt at this time that Penab's career discloses is that there was definitely a hierarchy because he was telling people to so things for him like servants. Also Amennakht was reporting his bad behavior to someone who was higher up.


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