| Haankhes | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
"May She Live" | ||||||
| Dynasty | 17th Dynasty | |||||
| Pharaoh(s) | Rahotep (?) – Sobekemsaf I | |||||
| Titles | King's Wife | |||||
| Spouse(s) | Rahotep (?) | |||||
| Issue | Ameni | |||||
| Burial | Unknown | |||||
Haankhes (transliteration: ḥꜢ-Ꜥnḫ-s, meaning: "May She Live") was an ancient Egyptian King's Wife of the Seventeenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period.
Titles[]
Haankhes' only known title is "King's Wife" (ḥmt-nỉswt).[1]
Family and Attestation[]
Haankhes is only known from a stela of her son, Prince Ameni. The stela was found in Coptos and it may be originally from Dendera; one half of it is in the Petrie Museum, the other is in the Pushkin Museum.[2] Ameni married Princess Sobekemheb, a daughter of Sobekemsaf I and Nubemhat.[3]
Pharaoh Rahotep is mentioned on a bow of a king's son Ameni dedicated to "the service of Min in all his feasts" at Coptos.[4][5] This Ameni might have been identical to Haankhes' son, in which case her husband was probably Rahotep.
It was once proposed she might have been a wife of Pharaoh Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef or possibly Senakhtenre Ahmose, prior to some clarification of the family tree of the 17th Dynasty.[6] This is now very improbable, as she is placed in the same generation as Sobekemsaf I, who was likely the grandfather or great-grandfather of Intef.
Burial[]
The whereabouts of her tomb and mummy remain unknown.
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Berlev, O.D., 1976: Un don du roi Rahotep. OLP 6-7 (1975/1976).
- Dodson, A./Hilton, D., 2004: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London.
- Grajetzki, W., 2005: Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary. Golden House Publications, London.
- Ryholt, K., 1997: The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period c. 1800-1550 B.C. Museum Tuscalanum Press, Copenhagen.