Sitre-In

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Sitre-in , or even in known, was the royal nurse of Hatshepsut . Although of non-royal status, she was buried in the Valley of the Kings . Her mummy, known as KV60B, was found in a badly damaged wooden coffin in grave KV60 , which is near KV20 , the grave of Hatshepsut and their father Thutmose I.

The still preserved inscription on the coffin reads “Great, royal wet nurse, In, true in voice ” ( wr šdt nfrw nswt Jn, m3ˁ-ḫrw - who schedet neferu nisut, maa-cheru ). The coffin and mummy were brought to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo in 1906 by Edward R. Ayrton , who examined the tomb according to Howard Carter . However, both were not included in the museum's inventory until 1916 (TR24.12.16.1, SR 7/23510 (b).

As part of a film project of the Discovery Channel in 2007, under the direction of Zahi Hawass, various mummies from the Valley of the Kings were examined using computer tomography , including the mummy of Sitre-In. This and her coffin were in the Egyptian Museum, but had to be looked for first. Photographs were also not available up to this point.

According to the research, she was very carefully mummified and wrapped in fine linen. Her height was calculated to be about 1.50 m. According to the hair found in the coffin, she had long, red, wavy hair. No information was given on possible illnesses or the cause of death. Sitre-In is also known from a sandstone stele (JE 56264) found in Deir el-Bahari , which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. This stele shows the wet nurse with the young hatshepsut on her lap, who is more likely to be depicted as a "small adult" than a child.

The mummy of Hatshepsut's wet nurse, as well as the mummy also found in KV60 and known as KV60A, which is regarded as that of Hatshepsut, are now on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

literature

  • Zahi Hawass, Sahar Saleem: Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies. The American University Press, Cairo 2014, ISBN 978-977-416-673-0 , p. 58.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zahi Hawass: Quest for the mummy of Hatshepsut. In: KMT. A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt. Summer 2006, Volume 17, Number 2, p. 41.
  2. ↑ 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. 107.
personal data
SURNAME Sitre-In
ALTERNATIVE NAMES In; KV60B
BRIEF DESCRIPTION royal nurse of Hatshepsut
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 15th century BC Chr.