Baketmut (, "Handmaid of

Mut Mut (; also transliterated as Maut and Mout) was a mother goddess worshipped in ancient Egypt. Her name means ''mother'' in the ancient Egyptian language. Mut had many different aspects and attributes that changed and evolved greatly over th ...

") was an

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 E ...

ian princess of the

Nineteenth Dynasty The Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XIX), also known as the Ramessid dynasty, is classified as the second Dynasty of the Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom period, lasting from 1292 BC to 1189 BC. The 19th Dynasty and the 20th Dynasty fu ...

. She was the second daughter of Pharaoh

Ramesses II Ramesses II (sometimes written Ramses or Rameses) (; , , ; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was an Pharaoh, Egyptian pharaoh. He was the third ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, Nineteenth Dynasty. Along with Thutmose III of th ...

. Her statue stands at the feet of one of her father's colossi at the Great Temple of Abu Simbel. She is depicted as an adult, with an

uraeus drawing of a Uraeus The Uraeus () or Ouraeus (Ancient Greek: , ; Egyptian: ', "rearing cobra", plural: ''Uraei'') is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in anci ...

on her head. She is also depicted inside the temple, in a procession of the nine eldest daughters of the pharaoh, where she is the second in line, behind

Bintanath Bintanath (also Bentanath) was a daughter and later Great Royal Wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II, born by his second spouse Isetnofret. Family Bintanath was likely born during the reign of her grandfather Seti I. Her mother, most ...

. It has been proposed that her mother was Queen

Nefertari Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wife, Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses II, Ramesses the Great. She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women ...

, but she is nowhere named as such. She is not shown on the facade of the Small Temple of Abu Simbel, which was built for Nefertari and decorated with statues of princes and princesses who are likely to have been her children.Dodson, op.cit., p.167 Her tomb is not known.

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{{reflist Princesses of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt

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