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Meritites
Meritites, also spelled Meryetites, Meritates, etc. ''(mr.t-ỉt=s;'' “beloved of her father”) was an ancient Egyptian female name. Its notable bearers were: * Queen Meritites I, wife of Pharaoh Khufu (4th Dynasty), p.60 * Princess Meritites II, a daughter of Khufu and Meritites I; she was buried in the Giza with her husband Akhethotep. * Meritites III, a daughter of Prince Hornit, eldest son of Pharaoh Djedefre (4th Dynasty) * Princess Meritites, a daughter of Princess Khamerernebty (daughter of Pharaoh Niuserre) and the Vizier Ptahshepses (5th Dynasty). Was granted the title ''King's Daughter'' (the Egyptian equivalent for 'princess') even though she was only the granddaughter of a king. * Queen Meritites IV, a wife of Pharaoh Pepi II; was buried in a smaller pyramid next to her father, Pepi I's pyramid (6th Dynasty) * Meritites, a daughter of Ramesses II; 23rd on the Abydos list of princesses (see List of children of Ramesses II The Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meritites I
Meritites I was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 4th Dynasty. Her name means "Beloved of her Father". Several of her titles are known from a stela found at Giza. She was buried in the middle Queen’s Pyramid in Giza (''Pyramid G 1b''). Meritites was a daughter of King Sneferu and his consort of unknown name. Meritites married her (half?-)brother, King Khufu. With Khufu, she was the mother of the Crown Prince Kawab, and possibly Djedefre. Both Queen Hetepheres II and Pharaoh Khafre have been suggested as children of Meretites I and Khufu as well, and it is possible that Meritites II was a daughter of Meritites I as well. Auguste Mariette recorded a stela at Giza in which Meritites is said to be a favorite of both Sneferu and Khufu: King’s wife, his beloved, devoted to Horus, Mertitytes. King’s wife, his beloved, Mertitytes; beloved of the Favorite of the Two Goddesses; she who says anything whatsoever and it is done for her. Great in the favor of Snefr great in the favor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meritites II
Meritites II (Merytiotes, Meritetes) or Meritites A ("beloved of her father"; ) was a 4th Dynasty princess of ancient Egypt, probably a daughter of King Khufu. She may have been a daughter of Meritites I based on the fact that this queen is mentioned in mastaba G 7650. She married the Director of the Palace, Akhethotep (a non-royal court official), and she had several children with her husband. Meritites and her husband shared a mastaba G 7650 in Giza. Family and early life Meritites II was probably a daughter of Khufu, as she was said to be a ''King's daughter of his body'' and as the location of her tomb indicates a relation to Khufu. She was a Prophetess of Khufu, Hathor, and Neith. Meritites was married to Akhethotep, who was a director of the palace. Further titles of Akhethotep include ''Sole friend'', ''Priest of the Bas of Nekhen'', and ''Overseer of fishers/ fowlers''.Flentye, Laurel. "The Mastabas of Ankh-haf (G 7510) and Akhethetep and Meretites (G 7650) in the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meritites IV
Meritites IV (also known as Meritites II as she was the second ''queen'' by that name; ) was a queen consort from the Sixth Dynasty. She was believed to be a wife of Pepi I, but her title of ''King's Daughter of his body of Pepy-Mennefer'' (''s3t-niswt-nt-kht.f-ppy-mn-nfr'') is now understood to indicate that she was a daughter of Pepi I Meryre and wife of a king Neferkare, presumably Pepi II. One more evidence for that theory is that her name means "Beloved of her father". Titles Her titles include: ''Great one of the hetes-sceptre'', ''She who sees Horus and Seth'' (''m33t-hrw-stsh''), ''Great of Praises'' (wrt-hzwt), ''King's Wife'' (hmt-nisw), ''King's Wife, his beloved'' (''hmt-nisw meryt.''f), and ''Companion of Horus'' (''smrt-hrw''). Burial Meritites IV was buried in Saqqara. Her pyramid lies to the south of the pyramid of Pepi I. Meritites' pyramid lies to the southwest of the complex of Queen Inenek-Inti Inenek, also called Inti (), was an ancient Egyptian queen c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepi I Meryre
Pepi I Meryre (also Pepy I; died 2283 BC) was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh, king, third king of the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled for over 40 years from the 24th to the 23rd century BC, toward the end of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom period. He was the son of Teti, the founder of the dynasty, and ascended the throne only after the brief intervening reign of the shadowy Userkare. His mother was Iput, who may have been a daughter of Unas, the final ruler of the preceding Fifth Dynasty of Egypt, Fifth Dynasty. Pepi I, who had at least six consorts, was succeeded by his son Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, with whom he may have shared power in a coregency at the very end of his reign. Pepi II, Pepi II Neferkare, who might also have been Pepi I's son, succeeded Merenre. Several difficulties accumulated during Pepi's reign, beginning with the possible murder of his father and the ensuing reign of Userkare. Later, probably after his twentieth year of reign, Pep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khufu
Khufu or Cheops (died 2566 BC) was an ancient Egyptian monarch who was the second pharaoh of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, Fourth Dynasty, in the first half of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom period (26th century BC). Khufu succeeded his father Sneferu as king. He is generally accepted as having commissioned the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, but many other aspects of his reign are poorly documented.Thomas Schneider: ''Lexikon der Pharaonen''. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, , page 100–104. The only completely preserved portrait of the king is a Khufu Statuette, small ivory figurine found in a temple ruin of a later period at Abydos, Egypt, Abydos in 1903. All other reliefs and statues were found in fragments, and many buildings of Khufu are lost. Everything known about Khufu comes from inscriptions in his necropolis at Giza pyramid complex, Giza and later documents. For example, Khufu is the main character noted in the Westcar Papyrus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princess Khamerernebty
Khamerernebty A () was a daughter of King Nyuserre Ini of ancient Egypt from the 5th Dynasty. She was married to Ptahshepses (a vizier). Her name means ''Appearance of the beloved of the Two Ladies''. Biography Khamerernebty was a daughter of King Nyuserre Ini. It is not known who her mother was. The principal wife of her father was Reptynub, but there is no evidence she was Khamerernebty's mother. Khamerernebty married a vizier named Ptahshepses. Their children are mentioned in Ptashepses' tomb at Abusir: sons Ptahshepses, Kahotep, Qednes, and Hemakhti, and daughter Meritites, who had the title "King's Daughter", even though being only the granddaughter of a king. Verner mentions an additional son named Kafini, whose image and name were systematically removed. Ptahshepses had two sons named Ptahshespses.Miroslav Verner, Abusir: realm of Osiris, American Univ in Cairo Press, 2002 The mastaba A mastaba ( , or ), also mastabah or mastabat) is a type of ancient Egyptian t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pepi II Neferkare
Pepi II Neferkare ( 2284 BC – 2214 BC) was a king of the Sixth Dynasty in Egypt's Old Kingdom. His second name, Neferkare (''Nefer-ka-Re''), means "Beautiful is the Ka of Re". He succeeded to the throne at age six, after the death of Nemtyemsaf I. Pepi II's reign marked a sharp decline of the Old Kingdom. As the power of the nomarchs grew, the power of the king declined. With no dominant central power, local nobles began raiding each other's territories and the Old Kingdom came to an end within a couple of years after the end of Pepi II's reign. This led to the First Intermediate Period of Egypt which lasted from the Seventh Dynasty of Egypt to the Tenth Dynasty of Egypt. He is thought to have been the world's longest-reigning monarch. According to the ancient historian Manetho (4th century BCE), he reigned for 94 years, and according to the Turin King List (13th century BCE), for 90 years. Since the latest contemporary documentary evidence for Pepi II dates from his 62nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ptahshepses
Ptahshepses () was the vizier and son-in-law of king Nyuserre Ini during the Fifth Dynasty. As such he was one of the most distinguished members of the royal court. Ptahshepses' mastaba complex in Abusir is considered by many to be the most extensive and architecturally unique non-royal tomb of the Old Kingdom. Discovery of the Mastaba In 1843, Richard Lepsius of Berlin University designated the Abusir site next to the pyramid complex of Sahure as "pyramid no. XIX" and subsequently published this in his ''Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.'' Jacques de Morgan's excavation of the site in 1893 revealed the site was actually part of a mastaba. It was not until some seventy years later that the revived interest in the site with its discovery of the complete structure in a series of excavations from 1960 to 1974 led primarily by Zbyněk Žába and Abdu al-Qereti. Mastaba design The mastaba of Ptahshepses was built in three phases. The entrance of the tomb, documented b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Children Of Ramesses II
The Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II had a large number of children: between 48 and 50 sons, and 40 to 53 daughters – who he had depicted on several monuments. Ramesses apparently made no distinctions between the offspring of his first two principal wives, Nefertari and Isetnofret. Both queens' firstborn sons and first few daughters had statues at the entrance of the Greater Abu Simbel temple, although only Nefertari's children were depicted in the smaller temple, dedicated to her. Other than Nefertari and Isetnofret, Ramesses had six more great royal wives during his reign – his own daughters Bintanath, Meritamen, Nebettawy and Henutmire (who, according to another theory was his sister), and two daughters of Hattusili III, King of Hatti. Except the first Hittite princess Maathorneferure and possibly Bintanath, none are known to have borne children to the pharaoh. The first few children of Ramesses usually appear in the same order on depictions. Lists of princes a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt () was a cradle of civilization concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in Northeast Africa. It emerged from prehistoric Egypt around 3150BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology), when Upper and Lower Egypt were amalgamated by Menes, who is believed by the majority of List of Egyptologists, Egyptologists to have been the same person as Narmer. The history of ancient Egypt unfolded as a series of stable kingdoms interspersed by the "Periodization of ancient Egypt, Intermediate Periods" of relative instability. These stable kingdoms existed in one of three periods: the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom of the Early Bronze Age; the Middle Kingdom of Egypt, Middle Kingdom of the Middle Bronze Age; or the New Kingdom of Egypt, New Kingdom of the Late Bronze Age. The pinnacle of ancient Egyptian power was achieved during the New Kingdom, which extended its rule to much of Nubia and a considerable portion of the Levant. After this period, Egypt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Djedefre
Djedefre (also known as Djedefra and Radjedef; died 2558 BC) was an ancient Egyptian king (pharaoh) of the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt, 4th Dynasty during the Old Kingdom of Egypt, Old Kingdom. He is well known by the Hellenization, Hellenized form of his name Rhatoisēs (Ῥατοίσης) by Manetho. Djedefre was the son and immediate throne successor of Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza; his mother is not known for certain. He is the king who introduced the royal title ''Sa-Rê'' (meaning “Son of Ra”) and the first to connect his cartouche name with the sun god Ra. Family Djedefre married his brother Kawab's widow, Hetepheres II. She was a sister to both of them, and who perhaps married a third brother of theirs, Khafre, after Djedefre's death.Dodson & Hilton, p.55 Another queen, Khentetka, Khentetenka is known from statue fragments in the Abu Rowash mortuary temple. Children with Hetepheres II or Khentetka * Hornit (“Eldest King's Son of His Body”) kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niuserre
Nyuserre Ini (also Niuserre Ini or Neuserre Ini; in Greek known as Rathurês, ''Ῥαθούρης''; died 2422 BC) was an Ancient Egyptian king King is a royal title given to a male monarch. A king is an Absolute monarchy, absolute monarch if he holds unrestricted Government, governmental power or exercises full sovereignty over a nation. Conversely, he is a Constitutional monarchy, ..., the sixth ruler of the Fifth Dynasty during the Old Kingdom period. He is credited with a reign of 24 to 36 years depending on the scholar, and likely lived in the second half of the 25th century BCE. Nyuserre was the younger son of Neferirkare Kakai and queen Khentkaus II, and the brother of the short-lived king Neferefre. He may have succeeded his brother directly, as indicated by much later historical sources. Alternatively, Shepseskare may have reigned between the two as advocated by Miroslav Verner, albeit only for a few weeks or months at the most. The relation of Shepseskare with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
