A picture of Nefertari taken in her Abu Simbel temple. Nefertari (Nefertari Merytmut) (c. 1300–1250 BC) was the Great Royal Wife (or principal wife) of Ramesses the Great. Nefertari means Beautiful Companion. She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, next to Cleopatra, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut. Her lavishly decorated tomb, QV66, is the largest and most spectacular in the Valley of the Queens. Usermaatre-setepenre The Justice of Re is Powerful, Chosen of Re Nomen Ramesses (meryamun) Born of Re, (Beloved of Amun) Horus name Kanakht Merymaa Nebty name Mekkemetwafkhasut Golden Horus Userrenput-aanehktu Consort(s) Isetnofret, Nefertari Maathorneferure Issue Bintanath, Khaemweset, Merneptah, Amun-her-khepsef, Meritamen see also: List of children of...
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Download high resolution version (945x1827, 239 KB)A picture of Nefertari taken in her Abou Simbel temple. ...
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Great Royal Wife (or ḥmt nswt wrt) is the term used to refer to the chief wife of an Egyptian pharaoh on the day of his coronation. ...
Usermaatre-setepenre The Justice of Re is Powerful, Chosen of Re Nomen Ramesses (meryamun) Born of Re, (Beloved of Amun) Horus name Kanakht Merymaa Nebty name Mekkemetwafkhasut Golden Horus Userrenput-aanehktu Consort(s) Isetnofret, Nefertari Maathorneferure Issue Bintanath, Khaemweset, Merneptah, Amun-her-khepsef, Meritamen see also: List of children of...
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A tomb is a small building (or vault) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. ...
QV66 is the tomb of Nefertari, the Great Wife of Rameses II. It was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli (the director of the Egyptian Museum in Turin), in 1904 in the Valley of the Queens. ...
The Valley of the Queens, also known as Biban el-Harim (Arabic: â), Biban el-Sultanat (Arabic: â), and Wadi el-Melikat (Arabic: â), is a place in Egypt where wives of Pharaohs were buried in ancient times. ...
Biography
Nefertari’s origins are unknown, but she is thought to have been a member of the nobility. While she was queen, her brother Amenmose held the position of Mayor of Thebes. Nefertari at age thirteen married Ramesses, only fifteen, before he ascended the throne, and remained the most important of his eight wives in Upper Egypt for at least the next twenty years. By the 1240s BC her prominence appears to wane, and her images by the Pharaoh's side become scarce. Thebes Thebes (, ThÄbai) is the Greek designation of the ancient Egyptian niwt (The) City and niwt-rst (The) Southern City. It is located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile (). Thebes was the capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome...
Map of Upper and Lower Egypt Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. ...
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Nefertari had at least four sons and two daughters, although none of these children succeeded the throne. Ramesses’ heir was Prince Merneptah, his 13th son by another wife, Isetnofret. Ramesses sired at least forty-eight to fifty sons during his long reign. She died sometime during the Regnal Year 25 of Ramesses' reign, and Isetnofret became his new principal wife. Merneptah (occasionally: Merenptah) was pharaoh of Ancient Egypt (1213 â 1203 BC), the fourth ruler of the 19th Dynasty. ...
Isetnofret (or Isis-nofret) (Ancient Egyptian: the beautiful Isis) was one of the Great Royal Wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II and was the mother of his heir, Merneptah. ...
Status Nefertari was quite probably the only Egyptian royal wife, other than Queen Tiy, to be deified during her lifetime. Ramesses' temple at Abu Simbel also has a smaller temple nearby dedicated to Nefertari and the goddess Hathor—a very unusual act, as temples were usually dedicated to deities, not mortals. Tiy (c. ...
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Her status is confirmed by the fact that she was depicted as part of her husband’s entourage, even during important voyages such as a trip to Nubia to commission a new temple built at Abu Simbel. Nefertari is also depicted as being equal in size to Ramesses, a rarity indicating her importance to the pharaoh. Nubia is the region in the south of Egypt, along the Nile and in northern Sudan. ...
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Her prominence is further supported by cuneiform tablets from the Hittite city of Hattusas (today Boghazkoy, Turkey), containing Nefertari's correspondence with the king Hattusilis and his wife Pudukhepa. She appears to have been instrumental in maintaining peace between Egyptians and Hittites, which eventually led to Ramesses' marriage to a Hittite princess. The cuneiform script is one of the earliest known forms of written expression. ...
Relief of Suppiluliuma II, last known king of the Hittite Empire The Hittites were an ancient people who spoke an Indo-European language, and established a kingdom centered at Hattusa (Hittite URU) in north-central Anatolia from the 18th century BC. In the 14th century BC, the Hittite empire was...
Hattusa (also known as Hattusas or Hattush) was the capital of the Hittite Empire. ...
Boghazkoy is the site of a major Hittite capital called Hattusas, in what is now Turkey, some 100 kilometers from the Black Sea and 150 miles from Ankara. ...
Ḫattušili, or Ḫattušiliš was the regnal name of three Hittite kings: Labrna II Ḫattušili I Ḫattušili II Ḫattušili III Category: ...
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Ramesses’ unusual affection for his wife, as written on her tomb's walls, shows that some Egyptian marriages were not simply matters of convenience or means to accumulate greater power and alliances, but were based around emotional attachment. Poetry written by Ramesses about his dead wife is featured on some of the walls of her burial chamber. ("My love is unique—no one can rival her, for she is the most beautiful woman alive. Just by passing, she has stolen away my heart.")
Titles
Tomb wall depicting Nefertari Nefertari's full range of titles were wrt ḥswt (great of praise), bnrt mrwt (sweet of love), ḥmt nswt wrt (Great Royal Wife), nbt im3t (lady of charm), ḥmt nswt wrt mryt.f (Great Royal Wife, his beloved), nbt t3wy (lady of the two lands), ḥnwt t3w nbw (lady of all lands), ḥmt k3 nẖt (wife of the strong bull), ḥmt-nṯr (god's wife) ḥnwt šmḥw mẖw (lady of Upper and Lower Egypt). Ramesses referred to his beloved wife as "the one for whom the sun shines." She was also often referred to as Nefertari Merit-en-Mut, meaning "the Lovely One, Beloved of Mut." Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1576x2320, 333 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Art of Ancient Egypt ...
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Great Royal Wife (or ḥmt nswt wrt) is the term used to refer to the chief wife of an Egyptian pharaoh on the day of his coronation. ...
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Nefertari's Children Ramesses II fathered at least 50 children during his lifetime. Not all of their names are known, and in many cases their mothers are difficult to establish with any kind of certainty. These children of Ramesses have been attributed to Nefertari by various authors; however, the list is by no means conclusive. - Prince Amun-her-khepeshef, Crown Prince, Commander of the Troops
- Prince Pareherwenemef
- Prince Meriatum, High Priest of Heliopolis
- Prince Meryre
- Princess Meritamen, Singer of Amun and Priestess of Hathor
- Princess Henuttawy
- Princess Beketmut (?)
- Princess Nefertari (?)
- Princess Nebettawy (?)
Amun-her-khepeshef or Amun-her-wenemef (13th century BCE) was the firstborn son of Pharaoh Ramesses the Great and Queen Nefertari. ...
Meritamen (also spelled Meritamun, Merytamen, Meryt-Amen; Ancient Egyptian: Beloved of Amun) was a daughter and later Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses the Great. ...
In Popular Culture Nefertari was portrayed in The Ten Commandments as Queen Nefretiri, and was played by Anne Baxter. The Ten Commandments is a 1956 motion picture dramatizing the Biblical story of Moses, an Egyptian prince-turned deliverer of the Hebrew slaves. ...
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 â December 12, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. ...
She features prominently in the Ramses series of novels by Christian Jacq. Christian Jacq (born 1947) is a French author and Egyptologist. ...
External links References - Grajetzki, Wolfram (2005) Ancient Egyptian Queens – a hieroglyphic dictionary
- Reeves, N et al, (1996) The Complete Valley of the Kings
- Rosalie David, (1998) Handbook to Life in Ancient Egypt
- Shaw, Ian (2000), The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt
- Shaw, Ian (1995), The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt
- Siliotti, A. (2002), Egypt: Splendours of an Ancient Civilisation. Italy: Thames & Hudson.
- Bradley, P. (1999), Ancient Egypt: Reconstructing the Past. United Kingdom: Cambridge.
- Hagen,R&R. (2003), Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs. Maat & cartouche of Nefertari, pg 41.
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