Malaqaye was a

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 ...

n queen with the title ''king's wife''. Her husband was perhaps

Tantamani Tantamani ( egy, tnwt-jmn, Neo-Assyrian: , grc, Τεμένθης ), also known as Tanutamun or Tanwetamani (d. 653 BC) was ruler of the Kingdom of Kush located in Northern Sudan, and the last pharaoh of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. His pren ...

, but this is only a guess. So far she is only known 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 ...

(Nu. 59). Her burial at Nuri consists at one time most likely of a pyramid with a chapel and two underground burial chambers. When excavated, the pyramid and chapel were totally gone. There was a staircase going underground leading to two burial chambers that were found looted, but still contained substantial part of the original equipment, including a silver mummy mask, many mummy coverings in silver and many amulets. The name of the queen was preserved on a

heart scarab The heart scarab is an oval, scarab artifact dating from ancient Egypt. Mostly an amulet, it was also used as jewelry, a memorializing artifact, or a grave good. The heart scarab was used by referring to Chapter 30 from the Book of the Dead a ...

. Fragments of more than 100 uninscribed

shabti The ushabti (also called shabti or shawabti, with a number of variant spellings) was a funerary figurine used in ancient Egyptian funerary practices. The Egyptological term is derived from , which replaced earlier , perhaps the nisba of "'' ...

s were found too. Dows Dunhamː ''The Royal cemeteries of Kush'', vol. II, Boston 1955, pp. 25-2
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Malaqaye 7th-century BC Egyptian women Queens consort of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt 7th-century BC women Queens of Kush