Haankhes ''(ḥ3-ˁnḫ=s,'' "may she live") was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the

17th Dynasty The Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVII, alternatively 17th Dynasty or Dynasty 17) was a dynasty of pharaohs that ruled in Upper Egypt during the late Second Intermediate Period, approximately from 1580 to 1550 BC. Its mainly Theba ...

, to an unknown Pharaoh. She is only known from a stela of her son Prince Ameni. The stela was found in Koptos and it may be originally from

Dendera Dendera ( ar, دَنْدَرة ''Dandarah''; grc, Τεντυρις or Τεντυρα; Bohairic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, translit=Nitentōri; Sahidic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ, translit=Nitntōre), also spelled ''Denderah'', ancient ...

; one half of it is in the

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology The Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology in London is part of University College London Museums and Collections. The museum contains over 80,000 objects and ranks among some of the world's leading collections of Egyptian and Sudanese material ...

,Denderah on Digital Egypt (with translation of the stela)
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Pushkin Museum The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (russian: Музей изобразительных искусств имени А. С. Пушкина, abbreviated as ) is the largest museum of European art in Moscow, located in Volkhonka street, just oppo ...

. Ameni married Princess Sobekemheb, a daughter of

Sobekemsaf I Sobekemsaf ''(sbk-m-z3=f;'' “Sobek is his protection”) is an ancient Egyptian theophoric name, popular during the Second Intermediate Period (mainly in the 17th Dynasty). Although it is grammatically masculine, it was also used for women; it w ...

and

Nubemhat Nubemhat (''nbw-m-ḥ3t, Gold is at the front'', Gold is a name for Hathor) was an ancient Egyptian queen of the Second Intermediate Period. She was the wife of king Sekhemre Wadjkhaw Sobekemsaf I. She had the title Great Royal Wife and is known f ...

.Dodson, Aidan, Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. (2004), p.117 Her only known title is "King's wife" ''(ḥmt-nỉswt).''

Theories

It was once proposed she was a wife of Pharaoh

Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef (or Antef, Inyotef, sometimes referred to as Intef VII) was an ancient Egyptian king of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was divided between the Thebes, Egypt, ...

, prior to some clarification of the family tree of the 17th Dynasty. This is now very improbable, as she is placed in the same generation as Sobekemsaf I, who was likely the grandfather or great-grandfather of Intef.

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{{Queens of Ancient Egypt Queens consort of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt