Nefertari (18th dynasty)
| Nefertari | |
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| Queen of Egypt | |
 The great royal wife Nefertari - from the Egyptian Museum in Leipzig, Germany | |
| Spouse | Tuthmosis IV |
| Religion | Ancient Egyptian religion |
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| Nefertari in hieroglyphs | ||||
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| Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | ||||
Nefertari was a queen of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, the first Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV.[1]
Her origins are unknown, it is likely that she was a commoner. On several depictions she and Queen Mother Tiaa are depicted as goddesses accompanying Thutmose. In the 7th year the new Great Royal Wife was Thutmose's sister Iaret; Nefertari either died or was pushed into the background when Iaret was old enough to become Thutmose's wife.[2]
She was depicted together with her husband before gods in Gizeh, on eight stelae. She was also shown on a stela found in the Luxor Temple and was mentioned on a scarab found in Gurob.[3] It is not known whether any children were born either to Nefertari or to Iaret; after Thutmose's death the next pharaoh was Amenhotep III, the son of a secondary wife called Mutemwia.
Sources
- ^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.140
- ^ Ian Shaw (ed.) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. p.241. Oxford University Press. 2000. ISBN 0-19-280458-8
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.140