Ankhnesneferibre

Ankhnesneferibre
Ankhnesneferibre
	Nitocris I
Successor	Nitocris II (as Divine Adoratrice); office abolished (as God's Wife) Royal titulary
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Nomen
Burial	Medinet Habu
Father	Psamtik II
Mother	Takhuit

Ankhnesneferibre was an

26th Dynasty, daughter of pharaoh Psamtik II and his queen Takhuit. She held the positions of Divine Adoratrice of Amun and later God's Wife of Amun between 595 and 525 BC, during the reigns of Psamtik II, Apries, Amasis II and Psamtik III, until the Achaemenid conquest of Egypt.^[2]

Biography

In 595 BC, Ankhnesneferibre was dispatched to

For Ankhnesneferibre several attestations are known, above all a statue depicting her now exhibited at the

Ptolemaic period by a man named Pymentu, and which is today located in the British Museum.^[2]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson., pp. 245-46
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S2CID 190737173
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Preceded by Nitocris I	Divine Adoratrice of Amun 595–? BC	Succeeded by Nitocris II
Preceded by Nitocris I	God's Wife of Amun 586–525 BC	Succeeded by office abolished

Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Germany