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    Ahhotep II was an ancient Egyptian queen, and likely the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Kamose. The naming / numbering by Egyptologists of the queens named...
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    Ahhotep I (Ancient Egyptian: jꜥḥ-ḥtp(.w), alternatively Anglicized Ahhotpe or Aahhotep, "Iah (the Moon) is satisfied") was an ancient Egyptian queen who...
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  • The names Ahhotep may refer to: Ahhotep I (c. 1560 – 1530 BCE), Ancient Egyptian queen who lived during the 17th dynasty Ahhotep II, believed to have...
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  • Ineni Nubkhaes Aya Abetni Satsobek XIV Tati XVI Mentuhotep XVII Nubemhat Sobekemsaf Haankhes Tetisheri Ahhotep I Ahmose Inhapy Sitdjehuti Ahhotep II...
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  • as her uncle Alexander the Great killed her father shortly after Philip II's assassination, it is unlikely that she was born after 335 BCE. There are...
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    control. If in fact Apepi II was a successor to Apepi I, then he is thought to have remained bottled up in the delta during Ahhotep's regency, because his...
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    Cleopatra II Philometor Soteira (Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλομήτωρ Σωτείρα, Kleopatra Philomētōr Sōteira; c. 185 BC – 116/115 BC) was a queen of Ptolemaic Egypt...
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    relationships between Amenhotep I and other possible family members are unclear. Ahhotep II is usually called his wife and sister, despite an alternative theory that...
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  • 84. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1995. ISBN 0-8109-9096-2 Ann Macy Roth, The Ahhotep Coffins, Gold of Praise: Studies of Ancient Egypt in honor of Edward F...
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    Nefertari (category Wives of Ramesses II)
    Nefertari first appears as the wife of Ramesses II in official scenes during the first year of Ramesses II. In the tomb of Nebwenenef, Nefertari is depicted...
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    Gustav (June 1956). "The Deeds of Suppiluliuma as Told by His Son, Mursili II (Continued)". Journal of Cuneiform Studies. 10 (3): 75–98. doi:10.2307/1359312...
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    Arsinoë II (Koinē Greek: Ἀρσινόη, c. 316 BC – between 270 and 268 BC) was a Ptolemaic queen and co-regent of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She...
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    Ineni Nubkhaes Aya Abetni Satsobek XIV Tati XVI Mentuhotep XVII Nubemhat Sobekemsaf Haankhes Tetisheri Ahhotep I Ahmose Inhapy Sitdjehuti Ahhotep II...
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    acceptance of his government among the Persians, Alexander also married Stateira II, the daughter of the deposed Persian king Darius III. After Alexander's sudden...
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    official named Meryre II. He would have been in charge of running her household. Inscriptions in the tombs of Huya and Meryre II dated to Year 12, 2nd...
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    as a priest. He also served several royal women. He first served queen Ahhotep, the mother of pharaoh Ahmose I, he was responsible for repairing the disturbed...
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    joint rule and marriage with her cousin and stepson Ptolemy XI Alexander II, an arrangement made by the Roman dictator Sulla. Ptolemy XI had his wife...
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  • BC). She is thought to be the daughter of Pepi II and Neith and to be the sister of Merenre Nemtyemsaf II. Her historicity has been questioned by some with...
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    from Alexander, including his mother Sisygambis and his daughters Stateira II and Drypetis. Alexander is reported to have treated them with great respect...
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  • pugnacious pose. A ceremonial battle ax, belonging to the funeral kit of Queen Ahhotep II, Great Royal Wife of the warlike pharaoh Kamose (c. 1555–1550 BC), who...
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    became his Great Royal Wife. She is depicted with him in the tomb of Meryre II, bestowing honors and gifts upon Meryre. The chronology of the final years...
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    Hetepheres II was a Queen of Ancient Egypt during the 4th Dynasty. Queen Hetepheres II may have been one of the longest-lived members of the royal family...
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    18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She was a daughter of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I, and royal sister and wife to Ahmose I. Her son Amenhotep I became pharaoh...
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    Pharaoh Senakhtenre and was sister to Pharaoh Seqenenre Tao, and the queens Ahhotep and Sitdjehuti. She probably married Seqenenre Tao, but it is possible...
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    Berenice became the mother of Arsinoe II, Philotera, and a son, Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Her son Ptolemy II was recognized as his father's heir in preference...
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    Theban Seventeenth Dynasty. He was possibly the son of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I and the brother of Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty. His reign...
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    his Great Royal Wife. Tetisheri was the mother of Seqenenre Tao, Queen Ahhotep I and possibly Kamose. Pharaoh Ahmose I erected a stela at Abydos to announce...
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  • regent for her son Pepi I (c. 2332) Ankhesenpepi II ruled as a regent for her son Pepi II (c. 2278) Ahhotep I ruled as a regent for her son Ahmose I (c. 1550)...
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    her as the mummy known as "The Elder Lady" found in the tomb of Amenhotep II (KV35) in 1898. Tiye's father, Yuya, was a non-royal, wealthy landowner from...
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    Berenice II Euergetis (267 or 266 – 221 BCE; Greek: Βερενίκη Ευεργέτις, Berenikē Euergetis, "Berenice the Benefactress") was queen regnant of Cyrenaica...
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