Seshemetka was an
ancient Egyptian
queen
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from the
First Dynasty of Egypt, a wife of
pharaoh
Pharaoh (, ; Egyptian: ''pr ꜥꜣ''; cop, , Pǝrro; Biblical Hebrew: ''Parʿō'') is the vernacular term often used by modern authors for the kings of ancient Egypt who ruled as monarchs from the First Dynasty (c. 3150 BC) until the an ...
Den
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and the mother of
Anedjib
Anedjib, more correctly Adjib and also known as Hor-Anedjib, Hor-Adjib and Enezib, is the Horus name of an early Egyptian king who ruled during the 1st Dynasty. The Egyptian historian Manetho named him "Miebîdós" and credited him with a reign ...
.
[Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ] Her royal titles were ''Great one of the hetes-sceptre (Weret-hetes,
Wr .t-
ḥts)'', ''She who sees Horus (Remen-Hor(u),
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-
Ḥr.(
w))'', ''She who carries Seth (Renmet-Setesh,
Rn m .t-
Stš)''.
[Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ]
Very little is known about Seshemetka besides a
stela discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. Seshemetka was not the only woman identified from funerary stela. Stelae of royal women named
Semat
Semat was an Ancient Egyptian Queen, who was a wife of the King Den. She was buried near him in Abydos.
Very little is known about Semat besides a stela discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. She held the titles of
Both of these titles were a ...
and
Serethor
Serethor was a woman who lived in ancient Egypt during the First Dynasty.
Serethor was a wife of the King Den. She is known from a funerary stela in Umm El Qa'ab, which is now in the Musée du Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ...
were similarly discovered in Abydos. These women may be further wives of king Den, but nothing beyond their names is known about them.
(referencing
Petrie
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, Troy, and Roth) lists Seshemetka as a wife of King
Djer
Djer (or Zer or Sekhty) is considered the third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of ancient Egypt in current Egyptology. He lived around the mid- thirty-first century BC and reigned for c. 40 years. A mummified forearm of Djer or his wife was disco ...
and states that she was buried near Djer's funerary complex in
Umm el-Qa'ab
Umm El Qaʻāb (sometimes romanised Umm El Gaʻab, ar, أم القعاب) is a necropolis of the Early Dynastic Period kings at Abydos, Egypt. Its modern name means "Mother of Pots" as the whole area is littered with the broken pot shards of of ...
, Abydos.
References
External links
* Francesco Raffaele
Royal Women in Early Egypt(English)
30th-century BC women
Queens consort of the First Dynasty of Egypt
Den (pharaoh)
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