| Abar | |
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| Queen consort ofNubia andEgypt King's Mother, Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt, etc | |
 Taharqa followed by his mother Queen Abar. Gebel Barkal - room C (Lepsius: Denkmäler) | |
| Burial | Possibly Nuri (Nuri 35) |
| Spouse | PharaohPiye |
| Issue | PharaohTaharqa |
| Dynasty | 25th Dynasty of Egypt |
| Mother | A sister ofAlara of Nubia |
Abar was aNubian queen of theKingdom of Kush dated to theTwenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She is known from a series ofstela found inSudan andEgypt. Her appearances mark her as the niece of KingAlara of Nubia, married to KingPiye and the mother of KingTaharqa.
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| Era:3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC) | |||||||||||
Abar, aNubian queen of theKingdom of Kush dated to theTwenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt,[1] is known from astela (Stela V) found inKawa, Sudan, recording that she was dedicated as asistrum player at the temple by her father, as well in a similar scene atJebel Barkal where she appears behind her sonTaharqa and from a stela fromTanis, Egypt.[1][2] Another appearance by Abar is at theAmun Temple atSanam, Sudan.[3]
Abar was the mother of KingTaharqa and married to the KingPiye. She was a niece of KingAlara of Nubia (the daughter of his sister).[1] She was separated from her son, Taharqa, for a long period of time and when they were reunited there was much rejoicing as he had become Pharaoh in her absence. This may have been a deliberate reference to the separation of the Egyptian godIsis and her sonHorus, who reunited under similar circumstances. An alternative theory is that the separation of mother and son was a tradition in the Kushite culture.[3]
She held several titles: King's Mother (mwt niswt), King's Sister (snt niswt), Mistress of the foreign lands (nbt kh3swt), Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt (hnwt Sma'w mhw), Great Lady of the Two Lands (wrt nbt t3wy), Noble Lady (iryt p't), Great of Praises (wrt hzwt), and Sweet of Love (bnrt mrwt).[2] Records of Abar represent the earliest recording of the power of Queens in the Kingdom of Kush.[3]Reisner proposed that Abar may be buried inNuri in tomb 35.[4]
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