Nubhetepti (''nb-ḥtp.tỉ,'' "Gold Hathor.html" ;"title="Hathor.html" ;"title="Hathor">Hathor">Hathor.html" ;"title="Hathor">Hathoris satisfied")Hermann Ranke: ''Die ägyptischen Persönennamen.'' Verlag von J. J. Augustin in Glückstadt, 1935., vol. I. p.192 was an ancient Egyptian queen with the titles ''king's wife'' and ''king's mother''. She is mainly known from Scarab (artifact), scarab seals, which are datable by style to the 13th Dynasty, around 1750 BC. She is also known from a statuette found at

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. Her husband is unknown. However, king

Hor Hor Awibre (also known as Hor I) was an Egyptian pharaoh of the Thirteenth dynasty of Egypt, 13th Dynasty reigning from c. 1777 BC until 1775 BCK.S.B. Ryholt, ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'', ''Carsten ...

had a daughter called

Nubhetepti-khered Nubhetepti-khered was an ancient Egyptian ''king's daughter'' of the Thirteenth Dynasty. She is basically only known from her undisturbed burial at Dahshur which was discovered in 1894 by Jacques de Morgan, close to the pyramid of Amenemhat III ...

. This translates as ''Nubhetepti-the-child'' and indicates that there was another (older) Nubhetepti around at the same time. For that reason it has been argued that Nubhetepti was the wife of king Hor and perhaps the mother of the princess Nubhetepti-khered. There are other scarabs of a queen Nubhetepti with the titles Great Royal Wife and she united with the white crown. These scarabs belong perhaps to another queen with the same name.

References

* K.S.B. Ryholt, ''The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period'' (''Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications'', vol. 20. Copenhagen:

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, 1997), 38-39

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