Nebetia was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty. She was the granddaughter of Pharaoh Thutmose IV and the daughter of Prince

Siatum Siatum was an ancient Egyptian prince of the 18th Dynasty. He was likely one of the sons of Pharaoh Thutmose IV and thus the brother or half-brother of Amenhotep III. His existence is known from two sources: one is a mummy-label found on the mu ...

. She is one of the few examples of a pharaoh's granddaughter bearing the title of ''King's Daughter'' – the ancient Egyptian equivalent of "princess" – which normally belonged only to women whose fathers actually ruled. The mummy-label, which states her title and the name of her father is one of only two sources Siatum's existence. The label was found in the

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cache The Sheikh Abd el-Qurna cache was discovered in 1857 by Alexander Henry Rhind. The tomb is located at the foothills of Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, near TT131. It had been sealed with a wall carrying the seal of Pharaoh Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( eg ...

. Nebetia's mummy – along with several others – had been reburied during the

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, but the tomb was robbed before its discovery in 1857.Aidan Dodson and Jac. J. Janssen, A Theban Tomb and Its Tenants, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 75 (1989), pp. 125-138

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* Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p. 137, 140. {{ISBN, 0-500-05128-3 14th-century BC Egyptian women Princesses of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Ancient Egyptian mummies