The

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 noble Sitre In (or Sitra In, or Sit-re known as In or Inet, or simply Sitre) was buried in the

Valley of the Kings The Valley of the Kings, also known as the Valley of the Gates of the Kings, is an area in Egypt where, for a period of nearly 500 years from the Eighteenth Dynasty to the Twentieth Dynasty, rock-cut tombs were excavated for pharaohs and power ...

, in tomb KV60. She has been identified as the nurse of

Hatshepsut Hatshepsut ( ; BC) was the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt, Egypt, ruling first as regent, then as queen regnant from until (Low Chronology) and the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose II. She was Egypt's second c ...

. A life-sized statue of her holding Hatshepsut is inscribed with her charge, which is repeated on an '' ostrakon'' now in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

.Eric H. Cline, David B. O'Connor,
Thutmose III: A New Biography
', University of Michigan Press 2006, p.98 Although not a member of the royal family, she received the honour of a burial in the royal

necropolis A necropolis (: necropolises, necropoles, necropoleis, necropoli) is a large, designed cemetery with elaborate tomb monuments. The name stems from the Ancient Greek ''nekropolis'' (). The term usually implies a separate burial site at a distan ...

. Her coffin has the inscription ''wr šdt nfrw nswt In'', identifying her as the ''Great Royal

Wet Nurse A wet nurse is a woman who breastfeeding, breastfeeds and cares for another's child. Wet nurses are employed if the mother dies, if she is unable to nurse the child herself sufficiently or chooses not to do so. Wet-nursed children may be known a ...

In''.

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16th-century BC Egyptian women People of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Wet nurses {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub