Neni was an ancient Egyptian queen of the

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. She was the wife of king

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and the mother of two of his daughters: Iuhetibu Fendy and Dedetanqet. The only title attested for Neni is ''king's wife'', the regular title of queens of this period. Not much else is known about her. There is a stela set up by her steward attesting that Neni had her own estates.K.S.B. Ryholt, ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c.1800-1550 BC,'' (''Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications'', vol. 20. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997), , p. 224

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Neni 18th-century BC women Queens consort of the Thirteenth Dynasty of Egypt