Tagtal was a

Nubia Nubia (, Nobiin language, Nobiin: , ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the confluence of the Blue Nile, Blue and White Nile, White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), and the Cataracts of the Nile, first cataract ...

n queen with the titles ''king's wife'' and ''Egyptian''. Her husband is not known for sure.

Malonaqen Malonaqen was a Meroë, Meroitic king who probably governed in the first half of the 6th century BC. His prenomen was "Sekhemkare". He is thought to be the son of king Aramatle-qo and queen Amanitakaye, although this is based merely on assumption ...

had been proposed although this is only a guess. So far she is only known from her burial at

Nuri Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile River, Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, Sudan, Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. History Nuri is the second of three Napatan bur ...

(Nu. 45). Tagtal is also known from her burial at

. The latter consisted of a pyramid with a chapel and one underground burial chamber. The pyramid and chapel were found totally destroyed. There was a staircase going underground and leading to the burial that was found heavily looted. Fragments of 15 ''

shabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "' ...

s'' preserved her name that was difficult to read due to their bad preservation. There appears also her titles, ''king's wife'' and a second one, perhaps to be read as ''Egyptian''.Dows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush'', vol. II, Boston 1955, pp. 149-150, 264 (fig. 208
online
/ref> The inscriptions there are made in Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the texts are hard to read.

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