Satiah (also, Sitiah, Sitioh; “Daughter of the Moon”) was an
ancient Egyptian queen, the
Great Royal Wife of
Thutmose III
Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost 54 years and his reign is usually dated from 28 ...
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Family
Satiah was the daughter of the royal nurse
Ipu. It is possible that her father was the important official
Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet The Autobiography of Ahmose Pen Nekhbet is a tomb inscription from ancient Egypt, which is significant to Egyptology studies. Ahmose Pen Nekhbet was an ancient Egyptian official who started his career under Ahmose I and served all the pharaohs unti ...
. No children of Satiah are known, though there is a possibility that Prince
Amenemhat – Thutmose's eldest son, who died in the 35th year of his father's reign – was her son.
Satiah died during her husband's 24 years reign and Thutmose's next Great Royal Wife was
Merytre-Hatshepsut
Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) became the principal wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III after the death of Satiah. She was also the daughter of Adoratrix Huy and the mother of Amenhotep II.
Family
Merytre-Hatshepsut was o ...
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Biography
Satiah's titles include: King's Wife (ḥmt-nisw), Great King's Wife (ḥmt-niswt-wrt) and God's Wife (ḥmt-ntr).
Satiah is attested in several places. In
Abydos the text on an offering table mentions her mother, the “nurse of the god” Ipu. The offering table was dedicated by the lector priest Therikiti. A bronze votive axe-head(?) (now in the Cairo Museum), inscribed with the name of Queen Satiah, was also found in Abydos.
At the temple of
Montu
Montu was a falcon-god of war in ancient Egyptian religion, an embodiment of the conquering vitality of the pharaoh.Hart, George, ''A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses'', Routledge, 1986, . p. 126. He was particularly worshipped in Upp ...
at
El-Tod
El-Tod ( ar, طود , from , , , ) was the site of an ancient Egyptian town and a temple to the Egyptian god Montu. It is located southwest of Luxor, Egypt, near the settlement of Hermonthis. A modern village now surrounds the site.
History
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a statue of the queen was dedicated by Tuthmose III after her death (the statue is now in the Cairo Museum).
Queen Satiahis depicted behind Queen
Merytre-Hatshepsut
Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) became the principal wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III after the death of Satiah. She was also the daughter of Adoratrix Huy and the mother of Amenhotep II.
Family
Merytre-Hatshepsut was o ...
and
Thutmose III
Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Officially, Thutmose III ruled Egypt for almost 54 years and his reign is usually dated from 28 ...
on a pillar in the tomb of the king (
KV34). Behind Queen Satiah we see the King's Wife
Nebtu
Nebtu was an ancient Egyptian, the wife of Thutmose III.
She was depicted on a pillar in Thutmose's tomb KV34 where the pharaoh leads a procession of his family members – his two Great Royal Wives Merytre-Hatshepsut and Satiah, his wife Nebtu ...
and the King's Daughter Nefertari.
Satiah is depicted before Tuthmose III in a relief from
Karnak
The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak (, which was originally derived from ar, خورنق ''Khurnaq'' "fortified village"), comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Constru ...
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A stela in the Cairo Museum shows Queen Satiah standing behind Tuthmose III.
[A. Bart Queen Sitiah website]
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References
Further reading
Alexandre Herrero Pardo, ''Satiah, 1ª Gran Esposa Real; Meritre, 2ª Gran Esposa Real; Isis, la madre del Rey - Las mujeres en la vida de Tutmosis III - Los Nobles de Egipto''
External links
Queen Sitiah (website by A. Bart)
{{Queens of Ancient Egypt
15th-century BC Egyptian women
Queens consort of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Wives of Thutmose III
Great Royal Wives