Bintanath
Bintanath | |
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19th Dynasty of Egypt | |
Father | Ramesses II |
Mother | Isetnofret |
Religion | Ancient Egyptian religion |
Bintanath in hieroglyphs | ||||||||||
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Bintanath (In Tomb) Daughter of Anath | ||||||||||
Bintanath (On stela) Daughter of Anath |
Bintanath (or Bentanath) was the firstborn daughter and later Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II.[1][2][3]
Family
Bintanath was likely born during the reign of her grandfather
Bintanath had a daughter who appears on the paintings in her tomb in the Valley of the Queens.[5] She is unnamed there but according to Joyce Tyldesley it is possible that her name was also Bintanath and she married the next pharaoh, Merneptah. According to Tyldesley, a statue of Merneptah in Luxor mentions "the Great Royal Wife Bintanath", who is, possibly, this daughter, since it is unlikely that the older Bintanath married Merneptah when both of them were well over sixty. However, it is entirely possible that Bintanath never married Merenptah and used the "Great Royal Wife" title only because she was entitled to it due to her first marriage.[6]
Life
Bintanath is depicted in a scene on a pylon in
Bentanath became Great Royal Wife around the 25th year of her father's reign.[1] During her time as queen she held many titles including hereditary princess, the great first one (iryt-p`t-tpit-wrt), Lady of The Two Lands (nbt-t3wy), Great King’s Wife (hmt-niswt-wrt), Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt (hnwt-Shm’w -mhw), King’s Daughter (s3t-niswt), and eventually King’s Sister (snt-niswt).[8]
As (great) royal wife Bintanath appears on several statues of
Two family stelae show Bintanath with her immediate family. The Aswan rock stela shows
Death and burial
Despite her being Ramesses' first daughter, she was actually one of the few children who outlived their long-lived father. She was depicted on a statue usurped by Merenptah.[1] She died during the reign of her brother Merneptah and was buried in the tomb QV71 in the Valley of the Queens.[1]
The tomb is described by Lepsius (number 4). The name of Bintanath is given in slightly different spellings in the tomb.[9] Bintanath is shown before Osiris and Nephthys. Both gods say: "I grant you a place of repose in the land of righteousness." Queen Bintanath is depicted with her daughter, who is not named. Bintanath's sarcophagus was later usurped by a man.[7]
See also
Sources
- ^ ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.170
- ISSN 0307-5133.
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- JSTOR 1512735.
- ISBN 978-1-317-21990-3.
- ISBN 0-14-028097-9
- ^ a b c d Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
- ^ Grajetski Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary Golden House Publications.
- ^ Lepsius, Denkmahler University of Halle Website Archived March 9, 2007, at the Wayback Machine