Nebetnehat ("Lady of the sycamore tree"; the name was one of the attributes of the goddess

Hathor Hathor (, , , Meroitic language, Meroitic: ') was a major ancient Egyptian deities, goddess in ancient Egyptian religion who played a wide variety of roles. As a sky deity, she was the mother or consort of the sky god Horus and the sun god R ...

) 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 mid-

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

Great Royal Wife Great Royal Wife, or alternatively, Chief King's Wife () is the title that was used to refer to the Queen consort, principal wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, who served many official functions. Description While most ancient Egyptians were ...

of an unidentified

pharaoh Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian language, Egyptian: ''wikt:pr ꜥꜣ, pr ꜥꜣ''; Meroitic language, Meroitic: 𐦲𐦤𐦧, ; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') was the title of the monarch of ancient Egypt from the First Dynasty of Egypt, First Dynasty ( ...

. Her name is known from alabaster

canopic Canopus ( , , ; , ), also known as Canobus (, ), was an ancient Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around from the center of that city. Canopus was located on the wes ...

fragments, one now in the Petrie Museum and thought to come from the

Valley of the Queens The Valley of the Queens is a site in Egypt, in which queens, princes, princesses, and other high-ranking officials were buried from roughly 1560 BC to 1130 BC. Pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Queens was known an ...

. Another fragment was found in a tomb (WB1) for several members of the royal family at the Wady Bairiya, her most likely burial place.Litherland, Piers (2018). ''The shaft tombs of Wadi Bairiya, volume I: Preliminary report on the clearance work on the WB1 site by the joint-venture mission of the New Kingdom Research Foundation with the Ministry of Antiquities''. New Kingdom Research Foundation, , pp. 61-62. Granted the fact that she held the title of Great Royal Wife, she could have been someone relatively close to

Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( , ; "Amun is satisfied"), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenization, Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty. According to d ...

, perhaps a daughter or some other female relative.

References

External links

The canopic fragment on the website of the University College London

Image of fragment on Flickr

Theban Mapping Project
– Plan of the tomb and other details. {{Queens of Ancient Egypt 14th-century BC Egyptian women Queens consort of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt