Sobekemsaf (queen)

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Sobekemsaf
Great Royal Wife
Khenemetneferhedjet
Stele JE 16.2.22.23 Engelbach.jpg
Stela depicting queen Sobekemsaf (center) along with other relatives. [1]
Spouse Nubkheperre Intef
Dynasty 17th of Egypt
Fatherunnamed father, Rahotep?
Motherunnamed queen

Sobekemsaf(sbk-m-z3=f) [2] was an ancient Egyptian queen of the 17th Dynasty.

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Family

She was the wife of king Nubkheperre Intef and sister of an unidentified pharaoh, probably Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef, Sobekemsaf II or Senakhtenre Ahmose. [3] [4]

Her name ("Sobek protects him" [5] ) is grammatically masculine. Although a female version of the name (sbk-m-z3=s) [5] did exist, the queen is named Sobekemsaf in all sources, so it was not an error on the scribe's part, but she was probably named for an ancestor. [6] Masculine names for females were not uncommon during the Second Intermediate Period. [7]

Sobekemsaf's titles were: King's Wife (ḥm.t-nswt), Great Royal Wife (ḥmt-nỉswt wr.t), United with the White Crown (ẖnm.t-nfr-ḥḏ.t), King's Daughter (z3.t-nỉswt), and King's Sister (zn.t-nswt). [2]

Attestations

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in hieroglyphs
Era: 2nd Intermediate Period
(1650–1550 BC)

Attestations indicate that she was closely associated with the city Edfu. She is also associated with king Nubkheperre Intef, see Ryholt 1997:394-395 File 17/4.

Jewelry perhaps from Edfu

Non-contemporary attestations

Sources

  1. 1 2 Engelbach, Reginald (1922). "Steles and tables of offerings of the Late Middle Kingdom from Tell Edfû". Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte. 22. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire: 180 plate 1, no. 6.
  2. 1 2 3 Grajetzki, Wolfram. Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary. London: Golden House Publications. ISBN   0-9547218-9-6 (2005), p. 44
  3. ↑ Dodson, Aidan & Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. ISBN   0-500-05128-3 (2004), p.117
  4. ↑ Dodson & Hilton, p. 118
  5. 1 2 Grajetzki, p. 304
  6. ↑ Polz, Daniel: Der Beginn des Neuen Reiches. Berlin & New York, Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2007. ISBN   978-3-11-019347-3 p. 39
  7. ↑ Ranke, Hermann: Die ägyptische Persönennamen, Band II, p. 4
  8. ↑ Polz, Daniel: "The Territorial Claim and the Political Role of the Theban State", in: Forstner-Müller & Moeller (eds.), The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research. Proceedings of the Workshop of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vienna, July 4 – 5, 2014, p. 229
  9. ↑ http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/3cairo.pdf
  10. ↑ Engelbach, Reginald (1922). "Steles and tables of offerings of the Late Middle Kingdom from Tell Edfû". Annales du Service des antiquités de l'Égypte. 22. Cairo: Institut français d'archéologie orientale du Caire: 116.
  11. ↑ Breasted, James Henry (1906). Ancient Records of Egypt. Vol. II. Chicago. pp. 44-46 §§ nos. 109−114.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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