Henuttakhebit was a

Nubia Nubia (, Nobiin language, Nobiin: , ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the confluence of the Blue Nile, Blue and White Nile, White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the Cataracts of the Nile, first cataract ...

n queen with the Egyptian titles ''king's wife'', ''king's daughter'' and ''king's sister''. Her royal husband is not known for sure. Perhaps she was the wife of

Aspelta Aspelta was a ruler of the kingdom of Kush (c. 600 – c. 580 BCE). More is known about him and his reign than most of the rulers of Kush. He left several stelae carved with accounts of his reign. Family Aspelta was the son of Senkamanisken and Q ...

and daughter of

Senkamanisken Senkamanisken was a Kushite King who ruled from 640 to 620 BC at Napata. He used royal titles based on those of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs. Biography He might have been married to queens Amanimalel and Nasalsa, the latter of whom bo ...

, as proposed by

Dows Dunham Dows Dunham (1 June 1890 – 10 January 1984) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and curator of Egyptian art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Career Dunham studied art history at Harvard University from 1909 to 1913. He was ...

and M. F. Laming Macadam. This is not certain. She was the daughter or adopted daughter of queen

Madiqen {{Short description, Nubian queen Madiqen was a Nubian queen with the Egyptian titles ''king's wife'', ''king's wife of the living'' and ''king's sister''. Her mother was queen Nasalsa. Her father was most likely king Senkamanisken. Her royal husban ...

and followed her as songstress of

Amun Amun was a major ancient Egyptian deity who appears as a member of the Hermopolitan Ogdoad. Amun was attested from the Old Kingdom together with his wife Amunet. His oracle in Siwa Oasis, located in Western Egypt near the Libyan Desert, r ...

Napata Napata
(2020). (Old Egyptian ''Npt'', ''Npy''; Meroitic language, Meroitic ''Napa''; and Ναπάται) was a city of ...

. Henuttakhebit is known from her burial at

Nuri Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile River, Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, Sudan, Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. History Nuri is the second of three Napatan bur ...

(Nu. 28) and from a stela that describes her adoption. Her burial consisted of a pyramid with a small chapel in front of it. There is a staircase going down to the two burial chambers that were found looted. The burial still contained plaques, providing her name. There are several shabtis found in different parts of the cemetery providing her name, none of them were found in this tomb. Three come from tomb Nu. 25, where also other shabtis from other queens were found. Here she just bears the ''king's wife''.Dunham, Dowsː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush'', II, Nuri, Boston 1955, pp. 126-137, 159-161, 262, fig. 206.

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