Ipu was a royal nurse during the
18th Dynasty of
ancient Egypt. She was the mother of Queen
Satiah,
Great Royal Wife
Great Royal Wife, or alternatively, Chief King's Wife ( Ancient Egyptian: ''ḥmt nswt wrt'', cop, Ⲟⲩⲏⲣ Ⲟⲩⲣϣ), is the title that was used to refer to the principal wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt, who served many official ...
of Pharaoh
Thutmose III.
She is mentioned on an offering table of Satiah's, found in
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, now in the
Egyptian Museum in
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metro ...
. She is named ''Nurse of the God.''
She may be identical with Ipu, the wife of
Ahmose Pennekhbet The Autobiography of Ahmose Pen Nekhbet is a tomb inscription from ancient Egypt, which is significant to Egyptology studies. Ahmose Pen Nekhbet was an ancient Egyptian official who started his career under Ahmose I and served all the pharaohs unt ...
.
Sources
15th-century BC women
People of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Royal nurses
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