Serethor was a woman who lived in
ancient Egypt during
the First Dynasty
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.
Serethor was a wife of
the King Den.
She is known from a funerary stela in
Umm El Qa'ab
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, which is now in the
Musée du Louvre
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, but no titles have been preserved. She may have been buried in the funerary complex of Den.
[Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt'', Thames & Hudson (2004)]
References
{{Queens of Ancient Egypt
30th-century BC women
Queens consort of the First Dynasty of Egypt
Den (pharaoh)