Henutmire

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Henutmire
19th Dynasty of Egypt
FatherRamesses II or Seti I
Motherunknown wife of Ramesses II or Tuya
ReligionAncient Egyptian religion

Henutmire was an

19th Dynasty of Egypt
.

Life

She is supposedly the third and youngest child of Seti I and Tuya, and the younger sister of Ramesses II and Tia. This theory is based on a statue of Queen Tuya, now in the Vatican. The statue shows Tuya with Henutmire, thus it is assumed that they were mother and daughter. However, she is nowhere mentioned as "King's Sister", a title which Princess Tia used, thus it is unclear whether she was a younger sister or a daughter of Ramesses.[1]

Her name means "The lady is like

Heliopolis.[2] On a colossus from Hermopolis she is depicted together with Princess-Queen Bintanath. Both have the titles The Hereditary Princess, richly favoured, Mistress of the South and the North, King's Daughter, Great Royal Wife.[3]

Death and burial

She died around Ramesses' 40th regnal year, and was buried in the tomb

Medinet Habu. It is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.[4]

Sources

  1. ^ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p.164
  2. ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.170
  3. ^ Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
  4. ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.170

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