Nubkhesbed
Encyclopedia
Nubkhesbed was an ancient Egypt
ian queen of the 20th dynasty
. She was the Great Royal Wife
of Pharaoh Ramesses VI
and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII
, Princess Iset
(God's Wife of Amun
) and Princes Amenherkhepshef
and Panebenkemyt.
She is mentioned in her son Amenherkhepshef's tomb KV13
and on a stela of her daughter Iset in Coptos.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...
ian queen of the 20th dynasty
Twentieth dynasty of Egypt
The Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, New Kingdom. This dynasty is considered to be the last one of the New Kingdom of Egypt, and was followed by the Third Intermediate Period....
. She was the Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife or Chief King's Wife is the term used to refer to the chief wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. While most Ancient Egyptians were monogamous, the pharaoh would have had other, lesser wives and concubines in addition to the Great Royal Wife...
of Pharaoh Ramesses VI
Ramesses VI
Ramesses VI was the fifth ruler of the Twentieth dynasty of Egypt who reigned from 1145 BC to 1137 BC and a son of Ramesses III by Iset Ta-Hemdjert...
and mother of Pharaoh Ramesses VII
Ramesses VII
Usermaatre Meryamun Setepenre Ramesses VII was the sixth pharaoh of the 20th dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He reigned from about 1136 to 1129 BC and was the son of Ramesses VI. Other dates for his reign are 1138-1131 BC...
, Princess Iset
Iset (priestess)
Iset was an ancient Egyptian princess and God's Wife of Amun during the 20th dynasty.Iset was the daughter of Pharaoh Ramesses VI and his Great Royal Wife Nubkhesbed, and a sister to Pharaoh Ramesses VII....
(God's Wife of Amun
God's Wife of Amun
God's Wife of Amun was the highest ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important Ancient Egyptian religious institution centered in Thebes during the Egyptian 25th and 26th dynasties...
) and Princes Amenherkhepshef
Amenherkhepshef
The Egyptian prince Amenherkhepshef was the son of Ramesses VI and Queen Nubkhesbed. He lived in the Twentieth dynasty and was buried in the reused sarcophagus of Twosret, in the reused tomb of Chancellor Bay, KV13, in the Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile, in Thebes, Egypt....
and Panebenkemyt.
She is mentioned in her son Amenherkhepshef's tomb KV13
KV13
Tomb KV13, located in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, was cut and decorated for the burial of the noble Bay of the Nineteenth Dynasty. An ostraca published in the French Egyptological journal BIFAO in 2000 records that Chancellor Bay was executed by pharaoh Siptah. Consequently, Bay was never...
and on a stela of her daughter Iset in Coptos.