Nebetnehat
Appearance
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Nebetnehat inhieroglyphs | |||||
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Era:New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||
Nebetnehat( "Lady of the sycamore tree"; the name was one of the attributes of the goddessHathor) was anancient Egyptianqueen consort during the mid-18th Dynasty.She was theGreat Royal Wifeof an unidentifiedpharaoh.Her name is only known from an alabastercanopicfragment found in thevalley of the Queens.[1]The canopic jar was part of a find referred to as the Tomb of the Princesses.[2]
Granted the fact that she held the title of Great Royal Wife, she could have been someone relatively close toAmenhotep IIIperhaps a daughter or some other female relative.
References
[edit]- ^Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton:The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt.Thames & Hudson, 2004,ISBN0-500-05128-3,p.141
- ^Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Griffith Institute. 1964
External links
[edit]- The canopic fragment on the website of the University College London
- Image of fragment on Flickr
- Theban Mapping Project– Plan of the tomb and other details.