Nefrubity Explained

Nefrubity
King's Daughter
Native Lang1:Egyptian name
Native Lang1 Name1:L2-nfr-nfr-nfr
Dynasty:18th Dynasty
Father:Thutmose I
Mother:Ahmose

Neferubity (Egyptian (Ancient);: nfrw bity) was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty. She was the daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose I and Ahmose, the sister of Hatshepsut and the half-sister of Thutmose II, Wadjmose and Amenmose.[1]

Her name means "Beauties of Lower Egypt" through the hieroglyphs "nefer", meaning "beauty", and "bity", meaning "Lower Egypt".

She is depicted with her parents Thutmose I and Ahmose in Hatshepsut's Deir el-Bahari mortuary temple, then vanishes. It is assumed that she died young, with her only depiction having a "sidelock of youth".[2] [3]

Notes and References

  1. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, p.140
  2. Dodson & Hilton, p.130
  3. Joyce Tyldesley: Queens of Egypt. 2006