Nefertari_(18th_dynasty)

Nefertari (18th dynasty)

Nefertari (18th dynasty)

Queen of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt

Nefertari was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the first Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV.[1]

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Her origins are unknown - she was a commoner. On several depictions she and Queen Mother Tiaa are depicted as goddesses accompanying Thutmose. In the 7th year the new Great Royal Wife was Thutmose's sister Iaret; Nefertari died when Iaret was 13 years old and thus old enough to become Thutmose's wife.[2]

She was depicted together with her husband before gods in Gizeh, on eight stelae. She was also shown on a stela found in the Luxor Temple and was mentioned on a scarab found in Gurob.[3] Nefertari and Iaret died childless; after Thutmose's death the next pharaoh was Amenhotep III, the son of a secondary wife called Mutemwia.

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  1. [1]
    Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.140
  2. [2]
    Ian Shaw (ed.) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. p.241. Oxford University Press. 2000. ISBN 0-19-280458-8
  3. [3]
    Dodson & Hilton, p.140
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