Zusammenfassung der Ressource
New Kingdom Egypt Queens
- Changing role and contribution of the queens
- Traditional role of the women was
to provide a female equivalent for
the male aspect of kingship
- Practical
- Religious
- Provide heirs for the throne
- Act as divine
consort for the king
- Teteshiri
- Titles
- King’s Wife
- Great King’s Wife
- King’s Mother
- Roles
- Wife of king
Senakhtenre-Tao I
- Mother of
king Tao II
- Historians' opinions
- Founder of the 18th
Dynasty of Pharaohs
- Sources
- Limestone Ahmose stela at
Abydos set up by
grandson Ahmose
- Inscription tells that
Ahmose decied to build
more mortuary temples for
his grandmother because
- "he so greatly loved her
beyond everything"
- Mummy
- Died when she was an old
woman, had buck teeth which
became a family trait
- ACHIEVEMENTS
- Ahmose Nofertari
- Roles
- Wife/sister of King Ahmose
- Played an important
role in Ahmose's reign
- Titles
- King's daughter
- King's sister
- ACHIEVEMENTS
- Linked with Amenhotep I to a
cult, notably in the artisans'
settlement of Deir-el-Medina
- Sources
- Historian's opinions
- Mummy
- Tiye
- Ahhotep I
- Titles
- Great King’s Wife
- King’s Daughter
- God’s Wife
- King’s Sister
- Roles
- Queen Teteshiri's
daughter
- Sister/wife of
Seqenenre Tao II
- Mother of
Ahmose I
- Sources
- Ahmose Stela
- Suggests she quelled a
rebellion in Upper Egypt
during war of the Hyksos
- "One who cares for
Egypt...she has pacified Upper
Egypt and expelled her rebels"
- Historians' opinions
- Mummy
- Coffin & mummy found in 1858 &
jewelry is at the Cairo Museum
- Ceremonial axe of Ahmose was also
found with her treasures (bronze
overlaid with precious stones
- Depicts Ahmose killing an enemy and
he wears one of the earliest representations
of the (khapresh) blue war crown
- ACHIEVEMENTS