Meritre Hatshepsut

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Meritre Hatshepsut in hieroglyphics
18th dynasty
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Meritre
Hatschepsut (Merit Re hat schepsut)
Mr.t Rˁ ḥ3.t šps. (W) t
Beloved (by) Re ,
"The first of the ladies"
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Meritre Hatshepsut and her son Amenhotep II.

Meritre Hatshepsut (also Merit-Re Hatshepsut or Hatshepsut Merit-Re ) was an ancient Egyptian queen in the New Kingdom ( 18th Dynasty ).

family

The priestess Hui describes herself as the mother of Meritre Hatshepsut . After the death of Satiah , the great royal consort of Thutmose III. , she became the new chief wife of the king and mother of Amenhotep II.

title

Meritre Hatshepsut had the usual titles of a queen: “Hereditary Princess” ( jrj-pˁt ), “Sole, Most High to Adore” ( wrt-nswt-wˁtjt ), “ Queen Mother” ( mwt-nswt ), “Lady of the Two Lands” (nbt -t3.wj) , “ Royal Wife ” ( ḥmt-nswt ), “Great Royal Wife” ( ḥmt-wrt-nswt ), “ Divine Wife of Amun ” ( ḥmt-nṯr-n-Jmn-m-jpswt ) with the additional Name extension " God's hand " ( djrt-nṯr ).

Historical evidence

Meritre Hatshepsut (left) next to Thutmose III.

Meritre Hatshepsut is known from numerous monuments. So she is in the temple of Thutmose III. depicted and stands there as a queen next to the seated Thutmose III. Her title stored here is "Great Royal Wife". A statue carrying a stele in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo shows Meritre Hatshepsut before Thutmose III. standing.

Many of her representations were usurped by Tiaa , the royal wife of her son Amenhotep II during the reign of Thutmose IV .

In the grave of Thutmose III. ( KV34 ) in the Valley of the Kings, Meritre Hatshepsut is portrayed as one of three queens following the king, alongside his first main wife Satiah and Queen Nebtu. The grave of Re in Thebes has a depiction of Meritre Hatshepsut, which she shows next to her son Amenhotep II.

dig

The burial place of Meritre Hatshepsut is not clearly documented. It is believed that she was originally intended to be buried in grave KV42 . However, this was not completed for her burial, possibly the royal nurse Senetnay and Baket-Re , the royal adored , were buried here. Meritre Hatshepsut was probably buried next to her son Amenophis II in the grave KV35 .

See also

literature

  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , pp. 133/139.
  • Constantin Emil Sander-Hansen: Amun's divine wife. Munksgaard, København 1940, p. 7.

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Translation of WP-Redaktion Ägyptologie

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tungsten Grajetski : Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary. Golden House Publications, London 2005, ISBN 0954721896 , p. 53.
  2. ^ Karl Richard Lepsius : Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia . Vol. 5, Leipzig 1913, sheet 38 (reprint: Verlagsgruppe Zeller, Osnabrück 1970).
  3. ^ Aidan Dodson, Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. P. 139
personal data
SURNAME Meritre Hatshepsut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hatshepsut-Merit-Re
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Queen of Egypt of the 18th Dynasty
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th century BC BC or 14th century BC Chr.