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Iset was the mother of Thutmose III, the only son of Thutmose II. Her son died on 11 March 1425 BC and her name is mentioned on his mummy bandages and a statue found in Karnak. [2] Although in these later instances Iset is referred to as Great Royal Wife, during the reign of Thutmose II the great royal wife was Hatshepsut. Thutmose II died in ...
Since Neferure is depicted in her mother's funeral temple, there are some authors who believe that Neferure was still alive in the first few years of Thutmose III's rule as pharaoh, and that his eldest son, Amenemhat, was her child. [6] However, there is no concrete evidence to prove that she outlived her mother into Thutmose III's reign.
Thutmose III (variously also spelt Tuthmosis or Thothmes), sometimes called Thutmose the Great, [3] (1481-1425 BC) was the fifth pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.A brilliant military commander who created the ancient world's first navy, he conducted campaigns that brought ancient Egypt's empire to its zenith.
This was based on its proximity to Queen Hatshepsut’s tomb and the tombs of King Thutmose III’s wives, explained Mohammad Ismail Khaled, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities ...
Egyptologist Gaston Maspero thought this was the mummy of Thutmose I largely on the strength of familial resemblance to the mummies of Thutmose II and Thutmose III. In 2007 though, Dr. Zahi Hawass announced that the mummy is a thirty-year-old man who had died as a result of an arrow wound to the chest.
The mother of the heir to the throne was not always the Great Royal Wife, but once a pharaoh was crowned, it was possible to grant the mother of the king the title of Great Royal Wife, along with other titles. Examples include Iset, the mother of Thutmose III, [4] Tiaa, the mother of Thutmose IV [2] and Mutemwia, the mother of Amenhotep III. [5]
Other statues depicted alongside her represent Thutmose III. A stela borne by a courtier’s statue shows Merytre-Hatshepsut standing before Thutmose III. In this scene, she is wearing a modius with double plumes, holding a fly-whisk in one hand and an ankh in the other. [6] Scene from a tomb in Sheikh Abd el-Qurna. The scene appears to depict ...
Satiah was the daughter of the royal nurse Ipu. [3] It is possible that her father was the important official Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet. [4] Most probrably she was the mother of Prince Amenemhat – Thutmose's eldest son (sometimes considered son of Neferure), who died during his father's reign.