Nebetnehat
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| Nebetnehat in hieroglyphs | |||||
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Nebetnehat ("Lady of the sycamore tree"; the name was one of the attributes of the goddess Hathor) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort during the mid-18th Dynasty. She was the Great Royal Wife of an unidentified pharaoh. Her name is only known from an alabaster canopic fragment found in the valley 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 to Amenhotep III perhaps a daughter or some other female relative.
References
- ISBN 0-500-05128-3, 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
- 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.