Sebat was an
ancient Egyptian king's daughter of the
Twelfth Dynasty. Her only known title is ''king's daughter of his body''. She is so far only attested on the back slab of a statue base found at
Serabit el-Khadim
Serabit el-Khadim ( ar, سرابيط الخادم ; also transliterated Serabit al-Khadim, Serabit el-Khadem) is a locality in the southwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, where turquoise was mined extensively in antiquity, mainly by the ancient Egypt ...
on
Sinai.
The statues are now lost but once depicted a falcon, king
Amenemhat I and king
Senusret I
Senusret I ( Middle Egyptian: z-n-wsrt; /suʀ nij ˈwas.ɾiʔ/) also anglicized as Sesostris I and Senwosret I, was the second pharaoh of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt. He ruled from 1971 BC to 1926 BC (1920 BC to 1875 BC), and was one of the mos ...
. The inscription mentions at the top
Amenemhat II and in a lower register Senusret I, the king's daughter Sebat, the king's wife
Neferu
Neferu ("Beauty") was an ancient Egyptian name.
Famous bearers:
* Neferu I, a queen of Montuhotep I (11th dynasty)
* Neferu or Neferukayet, probably the mother of Intef III (11th dynasty)
* Neferu II, a queen of Montuhotep II (11th dynasty)
...
, Amenemhat I and again Senusret I. From this evidence it seems clear that Sebat was the daughter of Senusret I and Neferu and the sister of Amenemhat II.
[Biri Fay: ''The Louvre Sphinx and Royal Sculpture from the Reign of Amenemhat II'', von Zabern, Mainz 1996, {{ISBN, 3-8053-1760-3, p. 46-47]
References
Princesses of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt
20th-century BC women