Nefumat

Nefumat was a man who lived in Gurabad during the reign of Parvezravan.

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Nefumat was one of the many slaves conscripted from the desert populace during Parvezravan's reign. He was the lover of Etta, a conscripted maid, and he hoped that they would one day be able to escape their suffering under Parvezravan.^[1] They were conscripted on the same day and sent to work at two different sites in the Hypostyle Desert.

The two managed to meet several times by giving various excuses to be absent from work, which are transcribed in the sites' leave of absence tablets as happening on the same days with the same excuses. On the 26th day, Nefumat fled from his worksite and was branded a fugitive, to be expelled from Gurabad. It is suggested that he fled to Etta's worksite: that day, Etta convinced the overseers at her worksite to allow a "very clever friend" of hers to work there, which was accepted.^[2][3]

Nefumat and Etta were likely the parents of the unnamed architect of Aaru's Shut, who called himself the "product of a tryst between a fugitive and a maid." The architect's father died during the destruction of Gurabad orchestrated by Liloupar, though the architect and his mother both survived.^[4]

Trivia

• Despite not being entirely similar, this archetype of a tragedic romantic story involving two lovers could be derived from Pyramus and Thisbe, two lovers whose story takes place in Ctesias' Babylon and influenced later famous and similar love stories such as William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. In the same Babylon, Ninus' burial by his widow Semiramis took place before the story of Pyramus and Thisbe, equivalently fitting the chronological events of the story of Gurabad as both Ormazd and Liloupar derive inspirations from Ninus and Semiramis, respectively.

Etymology

• Nefumat may stem from Nefermaat, an Egyptian male given name that literally means "Maat/justice is beautiful."

Other Languages

Language	Official Name
English	Nefumat
Chinese (Simplified)	内弗马特 Nèifúmǎtè
Chinese (Traditional)	內弗馬特 Nèifúmǎtè
Japanese	ネフマット Nefumatto
Korean	네푸마트 Nepumateu
Spanish	Nefumat
French	Nefumat
Russian	Нефумат Nefumat
Thai	Nefumat
Vietnamese	Nefumat
German	Nefumat
Indonesian	Nefumat
Portuguese	Nefumat
Turkish	Nefumat
Italian	Nefumat

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