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Nebetah (Ancient Egyptian: nb.t-ꜥḥ) was one of the daughters of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III of the 18th Dynasty and his Great Royal Wife Tiye. She was a younger sister of Akhenaten. Biography. Nebetah's name means Lady of the Palace. Her name, like that of her elder sister Henuttaneb was also frequently used as a title for queens.
A 27,6 cm limestone head, found in a private collection, turned out to be the head of Princess Nebetah and a part of this statue. Nebetah wears a round wig and a modius headdress; traces of the sidelock of youth can still be discovered.
This statuary group (dyad) found in pieces by Auguste Mariette in 1839 dominates the Central Hall and is the largest artifact in the entire museum and represents the pharaoh Amenhotep III sitting on his throne with Queen Tiy at his side and their daughters Henuttaneb (in central position), Nebetah and another princess without name in smaller scale.
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Nebetah (ancient Egyptian: nb.t-ꜥḥ, "Lady of the Palace") was a Princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty during the New Kingdom.
Nebetah was the fourth daughter of Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his Queen Tiye. Her older sisters were Sitamun, Iset, and Henuttaneb, while she might have had a younger sister called Baketaten. However, Nebetah and Baketaten may be the same person. Her brothers were Thutmose, Amenhotep IV, and probably Smenkhkare.
Unlike her older sisters, Nebetah did not marry her father, Amenhotep III. She was likely too young. Her her only known title is King's Daughter Whom He Loves, which is a usual title for princesses.
Nebetah is shown on a colossal limestone family statue from Medinet Habu. This huge seven-metre-high (23 ft) sculpture shows Amenhotep III and Tiye seated side by side, "with three of their daughters standing in front of the throne--Henuttaneb, the largest and best preserved, in the centre; Nebetah on the right; and another, whose name is destroyed...
Like her older sisters, Nebetah also disappeared from the historical record at the end of Amenhotep III's reign and is not mentioned again during Akhenaten's reign. She my have died, however, since all daughters dissapear at Amenhotep III's death this seems unlikely. It has been speculated that she was renamed during the Atenist reforms started by ...
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3.Tyldesley 1998, p.136.
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•O'Connor, D./Cline, E., 1998: Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign. University of Michigan Press.
•Tyldesley, J., 1998: Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen. Penguin, London.
Beketaten was most likely the youngest daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye. [2] This would mean their other children were her siblings, including Prince Thutmose, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, Sitamun, Isis, Henuttaneb, and Nebetah. Some scholars have speculated that Nebetah was identical with Beketaten. [3]
Princess Nebetah. the fourth daughter of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. My name, which means 'Lady of the Palace' or 'Great Lady', was also a title given to queens.
25 de nov. de 2016 · Nebetah was one of the daughters of Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III of the 18th dynasty and his Great Royal Wife Tiye. She was a younger sister of Akhenaten. Nebetah's name means Lady of the Palace.
