Nubemhat (''nbw-m-ḥ3t, Gold is at the front'', Gold is a name for

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) was an ancient Egyptian queen of the

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. She was the wife of king Sekhemre Wadjkhaw

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. She had the title

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and is known from several monuments. A statue with her name and title was found at Kawa in

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. She also appears on a stela from

Denderah Dendera ( ar, دَنْدَرة ''Dandarah''; grc, Τεντυρις or Τεντυρα; Bohairic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ, translit=Nitentōri; Sahidic cop, ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ, translit=Nitntōre), also spelled ''Denderah'', ancient ...

where her daughter, the ''king's daughter'' Sobekemheb is mentioned. There also appears the ''king's son'' Ameny, son of the queen Haankhes.Wolfram Grajetzki: ''Ancient Egyptian Queens'', London 2005, p. 42 Her only known title is ''ḥm.t-nswt-wr.t'' ("Great Royal Wife").

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Nubemhat on ''Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom''
17th-century BC Egyptian people 17th-century BC women Queens consort of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt {{Queens of Ancient Egypt