Tentamun (18th dynasty)
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| Tentamun in hieroglyphs | ||||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | ||||||
Tentamun was an ancient Egyptian princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty during the New Kingdom. She was a daughter of Thutmose IV.[1]
Tentamun died in the same year as her father. She was buried in the Valley of the Kings in tomb KV43 together with her father and with a brother called Amenemhat.[2] A fragment of a canopic jar belonging to Tentamun was found in the tomb. The fragment is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.[3]
Sources
- ^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.140.
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.135
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.140