Nubkhesbed

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Nubkhesbed
Queen consort of Egypt
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Nubkhesbed (left) giving offerings to Re-Horakhty on the stela of her daughter Iset
Burial
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SpousePharaoh Ramesses VI
Issue Ramesses VII
Prince Amenherkhepshef D
Prince Panebenkemyt
Princess Iset (God's Wife of Amun)
Dynasty 20th Dynasty of Egypt
Fatherunknown
Motherunknown
Religion Ancient Egyptian religion
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Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)
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in hieroglyphs
Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)

Nubkhesbed ("Gold and Lapis lazuli" [3] ) was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 20th Dynasty. She was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses VI and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII, Princess Iset (God's Wife of Amun) and Princes Amenherkhepshef and Panebenkemyt. [4]

She is mentioned in her son Amenherkhepshef's tomb KV13 and on a stela of her daughter Iset in Coptos. [5]

Sources

  1. Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN   0-500-05128-3. p.190
  2. Grajetzki, p.74
  3. Hermann Ranke: Die ägyptische Personennamen. Verlag von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, 1935, p.191
  4. Dodson & Hilton, p.186
  5. Dodson & Hilton, p.193