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Anuketemheb

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Anuketemheb
King's Daughter
King's Wife
Great Royal Wife
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Dynasty19thor20thDynasty

Anuketemheb(Ancient Egyptian:ˁnq.t-m-ḥb"Anuketin Feast "[1]) was anancient Egyptianprincess and queen of the19thor the20thDynasty. She is known from only one artifact, a red granitesarcophaguslid which was originally hers but was later reused forTakhat,the mother ofAmenmesseand was discovered in the tombKV10.

Anuketemheb's titles were "King's Daughter", "King's Wife" and "Great Royal Wife".[2]Her father and husband could not be identified, but she is possibly identical with a princess depicted in a forecourt of theTemple of Luxor,in a procession ofdaughters of Ramesses II;her name is only partially readable but ends inem-heb.[3][4]

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  1. ^Hermann Ranke:Die ägyptische Persönennamen.Verlag von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, 1935., I., p.69
  2. ^Dodson, Aidan, Hilton, Dyan.The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt.Thames & Hudson (2004).ISBN0-500-05128-3,pp. 183, 194.
  3. ^Schaden, Otto J.; Ertman, Earl (2006)."Amenmesse Project (KV-10)".Retrieved2023-05-24.
  4. ^Brock, Lyla Pinch.Egyptology at the Dawn of the Twenty-first Century: Archaeology.American Univ in Cairo Press (2003).ISBN9774246748,pp.99-100