- Henutmire
Henutmire was an
Ancient Egypt ian princess and queen, one of the eight Great Royal Wives ofPharaoh Ramesses II .She is possibly the third and youngest child of
Seti I andQueen Tuya , and the younger sister of Ramesses II andPrincess Tia . This theory is based on a statue of Queen Tuya, now in the Vatican. The statue shows Tuya with Henutmire, thus it is assumed that they were mother and daughter. However, she is nowhere mentioned as "King's Sister", a title which Princess Tia used, thus it is unclear whether she was a younger sister or a daughter of Ramesses. [Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p.164]Her name means "The lady is like
Re ". She marriedRamesses II and became Great Royal Wife; if she was his daughter, she was the fourth to do so, afterBintanath ,Meritamen andNebettawy . She is shown on statues of Ramesses fromAbukir andHeliopolis . [Dodson & Hilton, op. cit., p.170] On a colossus from Hermopolis she is depicted together with Princess-QueenBintanath . Both have the titles The Hereditary Princess, richly favoured, Mistress of the South and the North, King's Daughter, Great Royal Wife. [Kitchen, K.A., Rammeside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996. ]She died around Ramesses' 40th regnal year, and was buried in the tomb
QV75 . Her tomb was robbed already in antiquity; the trough of her coffin was later used for the burial of priest-king Harsiese inMedinet Habu . It is now in theEgyptian Museum inCairo . [Dodson & Hilton, op. cit., p.170]ources
External links
* [http://euler.slu.edu/Dept/Faculty/bart/egyptianhtml/kings%20and%20Queens/Queen_Henutmire.html Queen Henutmire]
* "Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité", 1991,Christian Settipani , p. 176
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