Nebettaui

Nebettaui in hieroglyphics
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Nebettaui was a daughter and wife of Ramses II. She appears in various lists of princesses of the ruler in fifth place, so was the fifth daughter of the Pharaoh . There is uncertainty about her mother. One of these lists is on the facade of the small temple at Abu Simbel . It was assumed that these were exclusively daughters of the Nefertari . Since Nebettaui is not mentioned here, it has been assumed that she was not the daughter of the first great royal wife , which means that Isisnofret is the most likely mother . At some point, probably in the second half of Ramses II's reign, she too became one of her father's great royal wives .

Only a few monuments of Nebettaui have survived . There is only one round sculpture , which is located at the great temple of Abu Simbel. Noteworthy is her spacious tomb ( QV60 ) in the Valley of the Queens , but its decoration was not completed.

literature

Heike C. Schmidt, Joachim Willeitner : Nefertari: wife of Ramses' II (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology , vol. 10 ). von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3805315295 , p. 32.
Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , p. 172.
Joyce Tyldesley : The Queens of Ancient Egypt. From the early dynasties to the death of Cleopatra. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7338-0358-2 , p. 157.

personal data
SURNAME	Nebettaui
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Daughter and wife of Pharaoh Ramses II.
DATE OF BIRTH	13th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	13th century BC Chr.