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King’s Wife and King's Sister of Taharqa
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Taharqa followed by Queen Takahatamun at Gebel Barkal.
Gebel Barkal, Temple of Mut: Taharqa, followed by the sistrum shaking queen Takahatamun making offerings to Amun and Mut. JebelBarkalMutTemple2.jpg
Gebel Barkal, Temple of Mut: Taharqa, followed by the sistrum shaking queen Takahatamun making offerings to Amun and Mut.

Takahatenamun (Takahatamun, Takhahatamani) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. [2]

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Family

Takahat(en)amun was the daughter of King Piye and the sister-wife of King Taharqa. She held several titles: Noble Lady (iryt p't), Great of Praises (wrt hzwt), King's Wife (hmt niswt), Lady of All Women (hnwt hmwt nbwt), and King's Sister (snt niswt). [3]

Attestations

Takahat(en)amun is known from a temple scene of the temple of Mut in Gebel Barkal where she is shown standing behind Taharqa who is offering to Amun-Re and Mut. [2] [3]

George Andrew Reisner proposed that Takatamun might have been buried in Nuri in Tomb 21. The tomb is dated, however, to the time of King Senkamanisken, meaning that the queen would have had to have died in her seventies or later if she were buried there. [4]


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References

  1. Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN   0-500-05145-3
  2. 1 2 Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN   0-500-05128-3, p.234-240
  3. 1 2 Grajetski Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary Golden House Publications. p.88
  4. Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149