Haankhes ''(ḥ3-ˁnḫ=s,'' "may she live") 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 queen consort during the

Second Intermediate Period The Second Intermediate Period dates from 1700 to 1550 BC. It marks a period when ancient Egypt was divided into smaller dynasties for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom. The concept of a Secon ...

to an unknown Pharaoh.

Attestation

She is only known from a stela of her son Prince Ameni. The stela was found in Koptos and it may be originally from

Dendera Dendera ( ''Dandarah''; ; Bohairic ; Sahidic ), also spelled ''Denderah'', ancient Iunet 𓉺𓈖𓏏𓊖 “jwn.t”, Tentyris,(Arabic: Ewan-t إيوان-ة ), or Tentyra is a small town and former bishopric in Egypt situated on the west bank of ...

; one half of it is in the

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology The Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects, making it one of the world's largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese ma ...

,Denderah on Digital Egypt (with translation of the stela)
/ref> the other is in the

Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (, abbreviated as , ''GMII'') is the largest museum of European art in Moscow. It is located in Volkhonka street, just opposite the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. The International musical festival Sviatos ...

. Ameni married Princess Sobekemheb, a daughter of

Sobekemsaf I Sekhemre Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I was a pharaoh of Egypt during the 17th Dynasty in the Second Intermediate Period. Attestations Sekhemre Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I is known from several monuments, see Ryholt 1997:395 File 17:6. Abydos Sobekemsaf I's ...

and

Nubemhat Nubemhat was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Second Intermediate Period. Biography Nubemhat (''nbw-m-ḥ3t, Gold is at the front'', Gold is a name for Hathor) was the wife of king Sekhemre Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I. She had the title ''ḥm.t-nswt- ...

.Dodson, Aidan, Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. (2004), p.117 Her only known title is "King's wife" ''(ḥmt-nỉswt).''

Theories

It was once proposed she was a wife of Pharaoh Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, prior to some clarification of the family tree of the 17th Dynasty. This is now very improbable, as she is placed in the same generation as Sobekemsaf I, who was likely the grandfather or great-grandfather of Intef.

Sources

{{Queens of Ancient Egypt Queens consort of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt