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.Wolfram Grajetzki: ''Ancient Egyptian Queens'', London 2005, p. 38 The husband of the queen is not mentioned on the stela, but it is assumed that he was one of the successors of Sobekhotep IV, as his wife is known and Nubkhaes belongs to a generation after Sobekhotep IV. Khons was a daughter of the queen. She married a vizier coming from

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Theories

Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton suggest that she was married to either

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