Nefertari was a queen of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, the first

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 IV Thutmose IV (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis IV, Thothmes in older history works in Latinized Greek; egy, ḏḥwti.msi(.w) "Thoth is born") was the 8th Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled in approximately the 14th century ...

. Her origins are unknown - she was a commoner. On several depictions she and Queen Mother

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are depicted as goddesses accompanying Thutmose. In the 7th year the new Great Royal Wife was Thutmose's sister

Iaret Iaret was a Great Royal Wife from the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. Family laret was the daughter of Amunhotep II and wife of Thutmose IV. The transcription of her name is uncertain; it is written with a single cobra, w ...

; Nefertari died when Iaret was 13 years old and thus old enough to become Thutmose's wife. She was depicted together with her husband before gods in Gizeh, on eight stelae. She was also shown on a stela found in the

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and was mentioned on a scarab found in Gurob.Dodson & Hilton, p.140 Nefertari and Iaret died childless; after Thutmose's death the next pharaoh was

Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( egy, jmn-ḥtp(.w), ''Amānəḥūtpū'' , "Amun is Satisfied"; Hellenized as Amenophis III), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. According to different ...

, the son of a secondary wife called

Mutemwia Mutemwiya (also written as Mutemwia, Mutemuya or Mutemweya) was a minor wife of the Eighteenth Dynasty pharaoh Thutmose IV, and the mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Mutemwiya's name means "Mut in the divine barque". While unconfirmed, it has be ...

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