Neferhetepes
Neferhetepes (nefer-hetep-es;
Biography
The name of Neferhetepes is known to us from a statue fragment found in Abu Rawash where her father had a pyramid complex built. She had the titles King's Daughter of His Body and God's Wife.[1]
Neferhetepes was also a Priestess of Hathor, mistress of the sycamore (hemet-netjer-hut-hor nebet-nehet, ḥmt-nṯr-ḥwt-ḥr nb.t-nht). She is the earliest attested priestess of Hathor. The title appears on the base of a statue from Abu Rawash.[2]
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Neferhetepes[3] in hieroglyphs | ||||
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Era: Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC) | ||||
Neferhetepes has been proposed as the mother of pharaoh Shepseskaf by Ariel Kozloff,[4] although for Vivienne Gae Callender there is no evidence in support of this hypothesis.[5]
Until recently, Egyptologists thought it as possible that Neferhetepes was identical to a woman of the same name who was buried in a small pyramid next to the pyramid of
See also
- Neferhetepes, wife of Userkaf
Sources
- ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p. 60
- ^ Robyn A. Gillam, Priestesses of Hathor: Their Function, Decline and Disappearance, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, Vol. 32 (1995), pp. 211-237
- ^ Hermann Ranke: Die ägyptische Persönennamen. Verlag von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, 1935, p.198
- ^ Kozloff 1982, p. 220.
- ^ Callender 1994, p. 101.
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, pp.55, 65
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.65
- ISBN 80-7308-116-4, p. 192-98
- Callender, Vivienne Gae (1994). "Part III. A prosopographical register of the wives of the Egyptian Kings (Dynasties I–XVII)". The wives of the Egyptian kings: dynasties I–XVII. Macquarie University. School of History, Philosophy, and Politics. OCLC 862671624.
- Kozloff, Arielle P. (1982). "Weserkaf, Boy King of Dynasty V". The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art. 69 (7): 211–223. JSTOR 25159780.