Anchenespepi III.

Anchenespepi III. was a queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty . She was the daughter of Pharaoh Merenre and the wife of his half-brother and heir to the throne Pepi II. Children from this marriage are not known.

tomb

→ Main article Pepi-I.-Pyramid # The pyramid of Anchenespepi III.

For Anchenespepi III. a queen pyramid was built southwest of the pyramid of her grandfather Pepi I. With a side length of 15.80 m, it is the smallest of at least eight queen tombs built here. The question of why Anchenespepi was buried here and not in the pyramid district of her husband Pepi II has not yet been resolved.

literature

Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt . The American University in Cairo Press, London 2004, ISBN 977-424-878-3 , pp. 70-78.
Audran Labrousse , Jean Leclant : New discoveries of the Mission Archéologique Française de Saqqâra (campaigns 2001-2005) . In: Sokar. No. 13, 2006, p. 35.
Jean Leclant, Audran Labrousse: The queens Anchenespepi II and III. The excavation campaigns of 1999 and 2000 by the “Mission Archéologique Française de Saqqâra” (MAFS) at the pyramids of the queens Pepis I. In: Sokar. No. 5, 2002, pp. 28-33.

Web links

The Pepis I family ( Memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
The queen pyramids of the pyramid Pepis I. ( Memento from July 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

personal data
SURNAME	Anchenespepi III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the ancient Egyptian 6th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH	before 2245 BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	23rd century BC BC or 22nd century BC Chr.