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As the mother of Ramesses II, Tuya enjoyed a privileged existence of a respected king's mother. Ramesses dedicated a monumental structure within his mortuary temple, the Ramesseum, to his mother, [11] and also constructed a fine new tomb for her in the section of the Valley of the Queens that he developed for the burials of the women in his ...
Ramesses II [a] (/ ˈ r æ m ə s iː z, ˈ r æ m s iː z, ˈ r æ m z iː z /; Ancient Egyptian: rꜥ-ms-sw, Rīꜥa-masē-sə, [b] Ancient Egyptian pronunciation: [ɾiːʕamaˈseːsə]; c. 1303 BC – 1213 BC), [7] commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was an Egyptian pharaoh. He was the third ruler of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
Nefertari, also known as Nefertari Meritmut, was an Egyptian queen and the first of the Great Royal Wives (or principal wives) of Ramesses the Great.She is one of the best known Egyptian queens, among such women as Cleopatra, Nefertiti, and Hatshepsut, and one of the most prominent not known or thought to have reigned in her own right.
Ramesses-Meryamun-Nebweben is known from his coffin's inscriptions. [6] Ramesses-Meryastarte (“Beloved of Astarte”) is the 26th in the Abydos procession. [9] Ramesses-Merymaat (“Beloved of Maat”) is the 25th in the Abydos procession. [9] Ramesses-Meryseth (“Beloved of Seth”) is known from a stone block from the Ramesseum, reused in ...
The Aswan rock stela shows Ramesses II, Isetnofret and Khaemwaset before the god Khnum, while in another register Bintanath appears with her brothers Ramesses and Merneptah. Another stela from West Silsila depicts Bint-Anath standing behind her mother Isetnofret and her father Ramesses II as the king offers Maat to the gods Ptah and Nefertem.
Isetnofret (or Isis-nofret or Isitnofret) (Ancient Egyptian: "the beautiful Isis") was one of the Great Royal Wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II and was the mother of his successor, Merneptah. She was one of the most prominent of the royal wives, along with Nefertari , and was the chief queen after Nefertari's death (around the 24th year of the ...
Amun-her-khepeshef was first in line to inherit the throne of Egypt from his father, Ramesses II's. He died before inheriting his father's titles 25 years into his father's rule. [2] Ramesses B, Ramesses II's second oldest son became the new crown prince. He also died before his father after another 25 years.
After Bintanath and Meritamen, she was the third of Ramesses' daughters to become her father's wife (possibly after the death of Meritamen). Nebettawy served as Great Royal Wife while her father entered the diplomatic marriage with Maathorneferure , the daughter of the Hittite king Hattusilis III , in year 33.