Nubemhat (''nbw-m-ḥ3t, Gold is at the front'', Gold is a name for
Hathor
Hathor ( egy, ḥwt-ḥr, lit=House of Horus, grc, Ἁθώρ , cop, ϩⲁⲑⲱⲣ, Meroitic: ) was a major 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 ...
) was an
ancient Egyptian queen of the
Second Intermediate Period
The Second Intermediate Period marks a period when ancient Egypt fell into disarray for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom. The concept of a "Second Intermediate Period" was coined in 1942 by ...
. She was the wife of king Sekhemre Wadjkhaw
Sobekemsaf I. She had the title
Great Royal Wife and is known from several monuments. A statue with her name and title was found at
Kawa in
Nubia
Nubia () (Nobiin language, Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the Cataracts of the Nile, first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue Nile, Blue ...
. She also appears on a stela from
Denderah
Dendera ( ar, دَنْدَرة ''Dandarah''; grc, Τεντυρις or Τεντυρα; Bohairic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, translit=Nitentōri; Sahidic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ, translit=Nitntōre), also spelled ''Denderah'', ancien ...
where her daughter, the ''king's daughter'' Sobekemheb is mentioned. There also appears the ''king's son'' Ameny, son of the queen
Haankhes.
[Wolfram Grajetzki: ''Ancient Egyptian Queens'', London 2005, p. 42 ]
Her only known title is ''ḥm.t-nswt-wr.t'' ("Great Royal Wife").
References
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Nubemhat on ''Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom''
17th-century BC Egyptian people
17th-century BC women
Queens consort of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt
{{Queens of Ancient Egypt