Nebetia 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

18th Dynasty The Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVIII, alternatively 18th Dynasty or Dynasty 18) is classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. The Eighteenth Dynasty ...

. She was the granddaughter of Pharaoh

Thutmose IV Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; Ancient Egyptian: ''ḏḥwti.msi(.w)'' "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately t ...

and the daughter of Prince Siatum. She is one of the few examples of a pharaoh's granddaughter bearing the title of ''King's Daughter'' – the ancient Egyptian equivalent of "princess" – which normally belonged only to women whose fathers actually ruled. The mummy-label, which states her title and the name of her father is one of only two sources Siatum's existence. The label was found in the

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cache The Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cache was discovered in 1857 by Alexander Henry Rhind. The tomb is located at the foothills of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, near TT131. It had been sealed with a wall carrying the seal of Pharaoh Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ...

. Nebetia's mummy – along with several others – had been reburied during the 21st Dynasty, but the tomb was robbed before its discovery in 1857.Aidan Dodson and Jac. J. Janssen, A Theban Tomb and Its Tenants, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 75 (1989), pp. 125-138

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* Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p. 137, 140. {{ISBN, 0-500-05128-3 14th-century BC Egyptian women Princesses of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian mummies