| Nubkhaes | |
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| Great Royal Wife | |
.jpg) Stela of Queen Nubkhaes in theLouvre | |
| Father | Dedusobek Bebi |
| Mother | Duatnofret |
| Children | Khonsoukhoufsy Renseneb (daughter); Bebires (daughter); Douatnefret (daughter) |
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| Nubkhaes inhieroglyphs | |||
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| Era:2nd Intermediate Period (1650–1550 BC) | |||
Nubkhaes {nbw-ḫꜥ⸗s} was a queen inancient Egypt during theSecond Intermediate Period.[1] Several of her family members were officials during the late13th Dynasty. Her name meansTheGold [=Hathor]appearsand she held the titlesGreat Royal Wife andthe one united with the beauty of the white crown.
She is so far only known from her family stela now in theLouvre and a few later references. The stela is the main monument of the queen. Here is mentioned her fatherDedusobek Bebi and other family members, many of them high court officials. These are all datable to about the time of kingSobekhotep IV.[2] The husband of the queen is not mentioned on the stela, but it is assumed that he was one of the successors of Sobekhotep IV, as his wife is known and Nubkhaes belongs to a generation after Sobekhotep IV. Khons was a daughter of the queen. She married a vizier coming fromElkab.[2]
| Sobekhotep (Father: steward) | Hapyu (mother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nebankh (high steward) | Dedusobek Bebi | Duatnofret | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| unknown king | QueenNubkhaes | Sobekemsaf | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Khons | Iy (vizier) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This queen is only attested in Upper Egypt between Thebes and Elephantine. However, she comes from a family who is well attested. At Thebes,Sobekemsaf II is said to have been buried with a queen Nubkhaes.
Thebes/Abydos (?), Stela Louvre C 13 | A round-topped stela with five lines of text.[3] as Iripat, Great King's Wife, United with the White Crown. The stela has five lines of offering, offering bread in two scenes to Hathor and Khentimentiu, and two registers with twenty-two names and titles of relatives.[4]
Elephantine, Statue Kaiser, MDAIK 28, 188 | as Great King's Wife
Elkab, Tomb 64 (9) | In this later monument we learn that King's Wife Nubkhaes is the mother of King's Daughter Khonsu who is married to Governor of Elkab Ay. Also mentioned is King's Wife Senebsen, wife of Neferhotep I.
Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton suggest that she was married to eitherSobekhotep V,Sobekhotep VI orWahibre Ibiau.[5]
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