Sobekemsaf ''(sbk-m-z3=f)'' Grajetzki, Wolfram. ''Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary.'' London: Golden House Publications. (2005), p. 44 was an ancient Egyptian queen of the

17th Dynasty The Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt (notated Dynasty XVII, alternatively 17th Dynasty or Dynasty 17) was a dynasty of pharaohs that ruled in Upper Egypt during the late Second Intermediate Period, approximately from 1580 to 1550 BC. Its mainly Theba ...

. She was the wife of pharaoh Nubkheperre Intef and sister of an unidentified pharaoh, probably

Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef (or Antef, Inyotef, sometimes referred to as Intef VII) was an ancient Egyptian king of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt, who ruled during the Second Intermediate Period, when Egypt was divided between the Theban-based ...

Sobekemsaf II Sobekemsaf ''(sbk-m-z3=f;'' “Sobek is his protection”) is an ancient Egyptian theophoric name, popular during the Second Intermediate Period (mainly in the 17th Dynasty). Although it is grammatically masculine, it was also used for women; it w ...

Senakhtenre Ahmose Senakhtenre Ahmose, was the seventh king of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period.Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Pharaohs: Volume I - Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty 3300–1069 BC, Stacey Interna ...

.Dodson & Hilton, p. 118 Her name ("

Sobek Sobek (also called Sebek or Sobki, cop, Ⲥⲟⲩⲕ, Souk) was an ancient Egyptian deity with a complex and elastic history and nature. He is associated with the Nile crocodile or the West African crocodile and is represented either in its f ...

protects him"Grajetzki, p. 304) is grammatically masculine. Although a female version of the name ''(sbk-m-z3=s)'' did exist, the queen is named Sobekemsaf in all sources, so it was not an error on the scribe's part, but she was probably named for an ancestor. Masculine names for females were not uncommon during the

Second Intermediate Period The Second Intermediate Period marks a period when ancient Egypt fell into disarray for a second time, between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the start of the New Kingdom. The concept of a "Second Intermediate Period" was coined in 1942 b ...

Attestations

She is mentioned on a bracelet and a pendant, now both in the

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. In her family's hometown

Edfu Edfu ( egy, bḥdt, ar, إدفو , ; also spelt Idfu, or in modern French as Edfou) is an Egyptian city, located on the west bank of the Nile River between Esna and Aswan, with a population of approximately sixty thousand people. Edfu is the site ...

she is known from stelae. The first is Cairo CG 34009. The stela, belonging to an official called

Yuf Yuf was an Ancient Egyptian priest and official who is known from a stela found in Edfu, and now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (inv.no. CG 34009, JdE 27091). He lived at the beginning of the 18th Dynasty. On his stela he reports that queen ...

dated to the 18th Dynasty, mentions reconstruction of her tomb. Another stela, also from Edfu (Cairo JE 16.2.22.23), depicts queen Sobekemsaf along with other relatives;Polz, Daniel: "The Territorial Claim and the Political Role of the Theban State", in: Forstner-Müller & Moeller (eds.), ''The Hyksos Ruler Khyan and the Early Second Intermediate Period in Egypt: Problems and Priorities of Current Research''. Proceedings of the Workshop of the Austrian Archaeological Institute and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, Vienna, July 4 – 5, 2014, p. 229 the stela names the queen's sister Neferuni and their mother, whose name is lost. Sobekemsaf's titles were: King's Wife ''(ḥm.t-nswt),'' Great Royal Wife ''(ḥmt-nỉswt wr.t),'' United with the White Crown ''(ẖnm.t-nfr-ḥḏ.t),'' King's Daughter ''(z3.t-nỉswt),'' and King's Sister ''(zn.t-nswt)''.

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