Queen
Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes
Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) was the principal wife of
PharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
Thutmose IIIThutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh...
after the death of
SatiahSatiah was an Ancient Egyptian queen, the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose III.Her mother was the royal nurse Ipu. It is possible that her father was the important official Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet. Satiah died during her husband's reign and Thutmose's next Great Royal Wife was Merytre-Hatshepsut...
. She was the mother of
PharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
Amenhotep IIAmenhotep II was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Amenhotep inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few military campaigns in Syria; however, he fought much less than his father, and his reign saw the effective cessation of hostilities...
. Of noble birth, she was the daughter of the Adoratrix
HuyHui was an ancient Egyptian priestess during the 18th dynasty. She was the mother of Merytre-Hatshepsut, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III.....
, whose statue in the British Museum (EA 1280) shows Huy holding a grandchild and represents the other children of Thutmose III and Merytre-Hatshepsut along the sides of her seated statue.
Queen
Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes
Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) was the principal wife of
PharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
Thutmose IIIThutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his aunt, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh...
after the death of
SatiahSatiah was an Ancient Egyptian queen, the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose III.Her mother was the royal nurse Ipu. It is possible that her father was the important official Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet. Satiah died during her husband's reign and Thutmose's next Great Royal Wife was Merytre-Hatshepsut...
. She was the mother of
PharaohPharaoh is a title used in many modern discussions of the ancient Egyptian rulers of all periods. In antiquity this title began to be used for the ruler who was the religious and political leader of united ancient Egypt. This was true only during the New Kingdom, specifically during the middle of...
Amenhotep IIAmenhotep II was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th dynasty of Egypt. Amenhotep inherited a vast kingdom from his father Thutmose III, and held it by means of a few military campaigns in Syria; however, he fought much less than his father, and his reign saw the effective cessation of hostilities...
. Of noble birth, she was the daughter of the Adoratrix
HuyHui was an ancient Egyptian priestess during the 18th dynasty. She was the mother of Merytre-Hatshepsut, the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III.....
, whose statue in the British Museum (EA 1280) shows Huy holding a grandchild and represents the other children of Thutmose III and Merytre-Hatshepsut along the sides of her seated statue. She is
not related to
Queen HatshepsutHatshepsut , meaning Foremost of Noble Ladies, was the fifth pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty of Ancient Egypt...
, the previous pharaoh of Egypt, though previously was often thought to be her daughter (Hatshepsut's only known child was
NeferureNeferure was an Egyptian princess of the eighteenth dynasty. She was the daughter of two pharaohs, Hatshepsut and Thutmose II.. She served in high offices in the government and the religious administration of Ancient Egypt....
).
Merytre-Hatshepsut is known to have held the Titles: Hereditary Princess (iryt-p`t), Sole One, Great of Praises (wrt-hzwt-w’tit), King’s Mother (mwt-niswt), Lady of The Two Lands (nbt-t3wy), King’s Wife (hmt-nisw), Great King’s Wife (hmt-niswt-wrt), God’s Wife (hmt-ntr), God’s Hand (djrt-ntr)]]..
Merytre-Hatshepsut is attested in:
- The temple of Tuthmosis III in Medinet Habu
Medinet Habu is the name commonly given to the Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III, an important New Kingdom period structure in the location of the same name on the West Bank of Luxor in Egypt...
. The Queen is depicted standing behind a seated Tuthmosis III. She's depicted in full Queenly regalia, including the vulture cap, modius with double plumes and the fly-whisk. She is called "great royal wife".
- The tomb of Tuthmosis III (KV43). On one of the pillars the queen, identified as Merytre, is one of three queens following Tuthmosis III. Merytre is followed by queen Satiah
Satiah was an Ancient Egyptian queen, the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose III.Her mother was the royal nurse Ipu. It is possible that her father was the important official Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet. Satiah died during her husband's reign and Thutmose's next Great Royal Wife was Merytre-Hatshepsut...
, Queen Nebtu and Princess Nefertari.
- The tomb of Ra (TT72) in Thebes. Merytre Hatshepsut is depicted seated next to / behind her son Amenhotep II.
- A stela (borne by the statue of a courtier).
Merytre-Hatshepsut was originally meant to be interred in
KV42Tomb KV42 is located in Egypt's Valley of the Kings. It was constructed for Hatshepsut-Meryetre, the wife of Thutmose III, but she was not buried in the tomb. It was reused by Sennefer, a mayor of Thebes during the reign of Amenhotep II, and by several members of his family...
, but was probably interred in
KV35Tomb KV35 in the Valley of the Kings is the tomb of Amenhotep II.It was discovered by Victor Loret in March 1898.-Layout and history:...
, with her son Amenhotep II.
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