| Mutnofret | ||||||||||||
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"Mut is Beautiful" | ||||||||||||
 Statue of Queen Mutnofret from the mortuary chapel of Wadjmose, at the Grand Egyptian Museum. (©Khaemwaset) | ||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 18th Dynasty | |||||||||||
| Pharaoh(s) | Thutmose I and II | |||||||||||
| Titles | King's Great Wife King's Mother King's Daughter King's Sister | |||||||||||
| Father | Ahmose II | |||||||||||
| Mother | Ahmose-Nefertari (?) | |||||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Thutmose I | |||||||||||
| Issue | Thutmose II, Wadjmose (?), Ramose (?) | |||||||||||
| Burial | Unknown | |||||||||||
Mutnofret or Mutneferet (transliteration: mwt-nfr.t, meaning: "Mut is Beautiful") was an ancient Egyptian Queen of the 18th Dynasty during the New Kingdom.
Family[]
Mutnofret was a King's Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose I and the mother of Pharaoh Thutmose II.[1] Ahmose was queen during their husband Thutmose I's reign. Based on her known titles of "King's Daughter" and "King's Sister", she is likely to have been a daughter of Pharaoh Ahmose II and a sister of Pharaoh Amenhotep I.[2] It is likely that she was also the mother of the princes Wadjmose and Ramose.[3] Prince Amenmose has also been proposed as her son,[4] however this seems unlikely since he is not mentioned in the Theban Mortuary chapel of Wadjmose, which attests Mutnofret and her aforementioned (probable) sons.
Attestations[]
She was depicted in the Deir el-Bahari temple built by her grandson Thutmose III; on a stela found at the Ramesseum; on the colossus of her son; and a statue of her bearing a dedication by Thutmose II was found in the mortuary chapel of Wadjmose.[1] This suggests that Mutnofret was still alive during her son's reign.[5] Mutnofret was presumably granted the title "King's Great Wife" by her son Thutmose II.
Burial[]
The whereabouts of Mutnofret's mummy and tomb remain unknown.
References[]
Bibliography[]
- Dodson, A./Hilton, D., 2004: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London.
- Shaw, I., 2000: The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press.
- Tyldesley, J., 1998: Hatchepsut: The Female Pharaoh. Penguin Books, London.