Masalaye 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 royal lady known only 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. 23). Her burial consisted of a pyramid (about 10 m in square), a chapel in front of the pyramid and of tow burial chambers under the pyramid, that were reached via a staircase. The burial chamber was found heavily looted, but still contained at least 50 shabti figures that provide her name. Several shabtis of queen Nasala were found too, that might came into the tomb due to the general looting of the whole cemeterey. Masalaye does not bear any title. Her name is written within a

cartouche In Egyptian hieroglyphs, a cartouche is an oval with a line at one end tangent to it, indicating that the text enclosed is a royal name. The first examples of the cartouche are associated with pharaohs at the end of the Third Dynasty, but the fea ...

indicating a royal status. It had been proposed that she was the wife of Senkamanisken. This is only a guess.Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadamː ''Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata'', in ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology˞'', Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 145, pl. XVI (no. 45)

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