Nebetiunet Explained

Nebetiunet
King's Daughter
Native Lang1:Egyptian name
Native Lang1 Name1:nb:t-O28-t:O49
Dynasty:18th Dynasty
Father:Thutmose III
Mother:Merytre-Hatshepsut

Nebetiunet (“Lady of Dendera”; a title of the goddess Hathor) was a princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, a daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut.[1]

She is one of six known children of Thutmose and Merytre; her siblings are Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Prince Menkheperre and princesses Meritamen, the second Meritamen and Iset.[2] She is depicted together with her sisters and Menkheperre on a statue of their maternal grandmother Hui (now in the British Museum).

Sources

  1. , pp.133,140
  2. Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.133