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Jaah , also Jah or Iah , was the wife of Antef III. , an ancient Egyptian king of the 11th dynasty , and the mother of his successor Mentuhotep II .
Hints
Little is known about her. In a graffito in Wadi Schatt el-Rigal , she is referred to as the king mother . There she is pictured behind King Mentuhotep II, from which it is concluded that he was her son.
In the grave of the Neferu ( TT319 ) in Thebes-West , she is referred to as the eldest natural king's daughter and king's wife, born of Jaah. According to this, Jaah had two children: Neferu and Mentuhotep II. From these two inscriptions, it is concluded that Mentuhotep II was married to his sister Neferu.
Jaah was probably buried in a shaft grave within the grave complex of Antef III., The Saff el-Baqar in at-Tarif , a partial necropolis on the west bank of Theban.
literature
- Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the earliest times to the end of the 12th Dynasty , Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7 , pp. 189–194.
- Lana Troy: Patterns of Queenship in ancient Egyptian myth and history , Uppsala 1986, ISBN 91-554-1919-4 .
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| SURNAME | Yeah |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Yah; Yeah |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Wife of the ancient Egyptian king Antef III. |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 22nd century BC BC or 21st century BC Chr. |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Egypt |
| DATE OF DEATH | 21st century BC Chr. |
| Place of death | Egypt |