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Nebetnehat in hieroglyphs
Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC)

Nebetnehat ("Lady of the sycamore tree"; the name was one of the attributes of the goddess Hathor) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort during the mid-18th Dynasty. She was the Great Royal Wife of an unidentified pharaoh. Her name is only known from an alabaster canopic fragment found in the valley of the Queens. The canopic jar was part of a find referred to as the Tomb of the Princesses.

Granted the fact that she held the title of Great Royal Wife, she could have been someone relatively close to Amenhotep III perhaps a daughter or some other female relative.

References

1. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.141
2. Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Griffith Institute. 1964

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.

• 14th-century BC Egyptian women
• Queens consort of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt