Chenmetneferhedjet

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Chenmetneferhedjet was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 12th Dynasty ( Middle Kingdom ). She was probably a wife of Amenemhet III. in the first years of his reign.

The name of the Chenmetneferhedjet is only known from a ritual vessel that was found from their burial in the ruler's pyramid . Dieter Arnold , who carried out the excavation, initially suspected that the name of the queen is not on the vessel, since Chnumneferhedjet is also a queen's title and he read the name as the title. However, recent studies assume that this is the name of a queen. In the looted burial there was also an unlabeled sarcophagus with the skeleton of a woman around 25 years old, who is probably Chenmetneferhedjet.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dieter Arnold: Dahschur, third excavation report , In: MDAIK 36 (1980), 20
  2. ↑ Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7 , p. 440.
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SURNAME Chenmetneferhedjet
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of the ancient Egyptian 12th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 19th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 19th century BC Chr.