Abar (queen)
| Abar(Queen) | |||||
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| Queen consort of Nubia and Egypt King's Mother, Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt, etc | |||||
 Taharqa followed by his mother Queen Abar. Gebel Barkal - room C (Lepsius Denkmahler) | |||||
| Burial | Possibly Nuri (Nuri 35) | ||||
| Spouse | Pharaoh Piye | ||||
| Issue | unknown | ||||
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| Dynasty | 25th Dynasty of Egypt | ||||
| Mother | A sister of Alara of Nubia | ||||
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| Abar in hieroglyphs | |||||||||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | |||||||||||
Abar was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.[1]
Life
Abar was the mother of King Taharqa and wife of the King Piye. She was a niece of King Alara of Nubia (the daughter of his sister).[1]
She held several titles: King’s Mother (mwt niswt), King’s Sister (snt niswt), Mistress of the foreign lands (nbt kh3swt), Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt (''hnwt Sma'w mhw), Great Lady of the Two Lands (wrt nbt t3wy), Noble Lady (iryt p't), Great of Praises (wrt hzwt), and Sweet of Love (bnrt mrwt).[2]
Abar is known from a stela (Stela V) found in Kawa recording that she was dedicated as a sistrum player at the temple by her father. She is also known from a scene at Jebel Barkal where she appears behind her son Taharqa and from a stela from Tanis.[1][2]
Reisner proposed that Abar may be buried in Nuri in tomb 35.[3]
References
- ^ a b c Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.234-240
- ^ a b Grajetski Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary Golden House Publications. p.88
- ^ Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149