Nefrubity

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Nefrubity
King's Daughter
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Nefrubity with Queen Ahmose and Pharaoh Thutmose I at Deir el-Bahari
Egyptian name
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Dynasty 18th Dynasty
Father Thutmose I
Mother Ahmose

Neferubity (Ancient Egyptian : nfrw bity) was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty. She was the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and Ahmose, the sister of Hatshepsut and the half-sister of Thutmose II, Wadjmose and Amenmose. [1]

Her name means "Beauties of Lower Egypt" through the hieroglyphs " nefer", meaning "beauty", and "bity", meaning "Lower Egypt".

She is depicted with her parents Thutmose I and Ahmose in Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahari mortuary temple, then vanishes. It is assumed that she died young, with her only depiction having a "sidelock of youth". [2] [3]

Sources

  1. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN   0-500-05128-3 p.140
  2. Dodson & Hilton, p.130
  3. Joyce Tyldesley: Queens of Egypt. 2006

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