Nachtneith

Nachtneith in hieroglyphics
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	Grave stele of Nachtneith

Nachtneith is the name of an ancient Egyptian queen during the early dynastic era . It is very likely that she was a wife of King Den , who lived in the 1st Dynasty , around 2900 BC. Ruled.

Nachtneith is only known from her tombstone , which was found in a side grave in the Den necropolis . On the tombstone she bears the titles “ Groß an Hetes- Szepter ” ( Wr.t-ḥts ) and “ Who bears Horus ” ( Rmn- Ḥr. (W) ). The stele is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo under the inventory number JE 35005. It is about 31.6 cm high and 18.5 cm wide.

literature

Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty (= Egypt and Old Testament. Vol. 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7 , p. 379.
Geoffrey T. Martin: Umm el-Qaab VII, Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos (= Archaeological Publications. Vol. 123). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06256-5 , pp. 82–83, no. 95, plate 28.

Individual evidence

^ William Matthew Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part II (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 21). Egypt Exploration Fund et al., London 1901 ( digitization ), plate XXVII., Object 95.
↑ Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, Fig. 7.

personal data
SURNAME	Nachtneith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Queen of the 1st Dynasty of ancient Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH	30th century BC BC or 29th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	30th century BC BC or 29th century BC Chr.

[1] William Matthew Flinders Petrie : The royal tombs of the earliest dynasties: 1901. Part II (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 21). Egypt Exploration Fund et al., London 1901 ( digitization ), plate XXVII., Object 95.

[2] Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt from the early days to the end of the 12th dynasty. Wiesbaden 2001, Fig. 7.