Beketamun Explained

Beketamun
King's Daughter
Native Lang1:Egyptian name
Native Lang1 Name1:i-mn:n-G29:t-B1
Dynasty:Eighteenth Dynasty
Father:Thutmose III

Beketamun or Beket was a princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, a daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III.[1] Her name means “Handmaid of Amun”.

Her name is inscribed on a faience votive object (together with her father's cartouche) found in Deir el-Bahri (now in Boston). She is also mentioned on a wooden staff of her servant, Amenmose, and probably on a scarab (now in the British Museum). It is possible that she is the princess standing behind Princess Meritamen in the Hathor chapel in Deir el-Bahri.[2] [3]

Sources

  1. , p.138
  2. Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.138
  3. Sue D'Auria, The Princess Baketamūn, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 69, (1983), pp. 161-162 Jstor