Atakhebasken
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Atakhebasken (Akhetbasaken) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.[2] She was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Taharqa.
Burial
Atakhebasken is mainly known from her tomb in
shawabti, canopic jars, which are now in Boston, and an altar now in the Meroe Museum in Khartoum.[3][4] Her tomb was enlarged after the chapel had already been built.[5]
References
- ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3
- ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p. 234-240
- ^ Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149
- ^ Grajetski Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary Golden House Publications.
- ^ Derek A. Welsby, The kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic empires, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998, p. 108