Anchnesneferibre

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Anchnesneferibre in hieroglyphics
Surname
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Heka (t) -neferu-Mut-meri (t-Mut)
ḥq3 (t) -nfrw-Mwt-mrj (t-Mwt)
Ruler of the perfections / beauties of courage , loved by courage
Birth Name
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S34 n
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Anchnesneferibre
(Anch nes nefer ib Re)
ˁnḫ ns nfr jb Rˁ

Anchnesneferibre , daughter of Pharaoh (King) Psammetich II. And his wife Tachuit , was in the 26th Dynasty around 595-525 BC. Chr. God's Wife of Amun . It also wore from around 595 to 560 BC. The title of high priestess of Amun in Thebes .

As a stela from Karnak attests, Anchnesneferibre was sent to Thebes and adopted by her predecessor Nitokris . Eight years later, in year 4 of the reign of her brother Apries (approx. 586 BC), when her predecessor Nitokris died, she took over the office of the wife of God of Amun. As the “Consort of Amun” she had great political power and ruled Thebes for a period of 60 years. She held her office during the reign of four pharaohs, those of her father Psammetich II, Apries, Amasis and Psammetichs III. , until the beginning of the Persian rule . With the Persian rule, the office of God's wife of Amun was abolished. Her burial chapel is located in the temple area of Medinet Habu . She is represented by several reliefs and statues in Karnak. Its black basalt sarcophagus was reused in the Ptolemaic period by a man named Pymentu and is now in the British Museum .

Statue of Anchnesneferibre, Nubian Museum, Aswan, CG-42205
Detail from Anchnesneferibres sarcophagus , British Museum

See also

literature

  • Jürgen von Beckerath : Handbook of Egyptian King Names (= Munich Egyptological Studies. (MÄS) Volume 49). 2nd improved and expanded edition, von Zabern, Mainz 1999, ISBN 3-8053-2591-6 , pp. 220-221.
  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton : The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London / New York 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 .
  • Erhart Graefe : Studies on the administration and history of the institution of the wife of God of Amun from the beginning of the New Kingdom to the late period. two volumes In: Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Volume 37, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1981, ISBN 3-447-02174-8 .
  • Karl Jansen-Winkeln : The Chronology of the Third Intermediate Period: Dyns 22-24. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 234-264 ( online ).
  • Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs . Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 , p. 73 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b A. Dodson, D. Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London / New York 2004, p. 246.
  2. ^ A. Dodson, D. Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London / New York 2004, pp. 245-46.
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predecessor Office Successor
Nitokris Consort of Amun,
26th Dynasty 		Office canceled
personal data
SURNAME Anchnesneferibre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Daughter of Psammetich II, consort of Amun
DATE OF BIRTH 6th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 6th century BC Chr.