Batahaliye was the wife and the sister of

Nubia Nubia () (Nobiin: Nobīn, ) is a region along the Nile river encompassing the area between the first cataract of the Nile (just south of Aswan in southern Egypt) and the confluence of the Blue and White Niles (in Khartoum in central Sudan), or ...

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Harsiotef Harsiotef was a Kushite King of Meroe (about 404 – 369 BC). Harsiotef took on a full set of titles based on those of the Egyptian Pharaohs: ''Horus name:'' Kanakht Khaemnepet ("Mighty Bull appears in Napata") ''Nebty Name:'' Nednetjeru ("Who ...

(ruled very roughly around 400 BC). She is known from stela of her husband and from her burial at

Nuri Nuri is a place in modern Sudan on the west side of the Nile River, Nile, near the Fourth Cataract. Nuri is situated about 15 km north of Sanam, Sudan, Sanam, and 10 km from Jebel Barkal. Nuri is the second of three Napatan burial sites ...

. Her main title was ''big king's wife'', Hmt-niswt aAt. (not ''great king's wife'' as usually). Other titles are ''king's wife'' and ''king's sister''. She is also known from her burial at

. The latter consisted of a pyramid with a chapel and two underground burial chambers. There was a staircase going underground and leading to two rooms. The burial was found robbed, but fragments of uninscribed shabtis were found. Here was also found a stela showing Batahaliye in front of the Underworld god

Osiris Osiris (, from Egyptian ''wsjr'', cop, ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ , ; Phoenician: 𐤀𐤎𐤓, romanized: ʾsr) is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was ...

Dows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush'', vol. II, Boston 1955, pp. 228-231, 261 (fig. 205
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/ref> The inscriptions there are made in Egyptian hieroglyphs, but the texts are hard to read.

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5th-century BC women 4th-century BC women Queens of Kush