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Amenirdis I. Amenirdis I (throne name: Hatneferumut) was a God's Wife of Amun during the 25th Dynasty of ancient Egypt. [3] Originating from the Kingdom of Kush, she was the daughter of Pharaoh Kashta and Queen Pebatjma, and was later adopted by Shepenupet I. She went on to rule as high priestess, and has been shown in several artifacts from ...
- The Kushite Princess Amenirdis I Was A Powerful God’s Wife of Amun
- God’s Wives Enjoyed Many Privileges of Royalty
- Burial Customs Changed Under Egyptian Rule
- Pyramid Building Began in Nubia After The Egyptian Conquest
The adoption of king Kashta’s daughter, Amenirdis I, as God’s Wife of Amun made Kushite rule in Thebes legitimate. Occupied by a woman of the reigning royal family, the office of God’s Wife had served as a mediator between the god and the king since the time of Egypt’s New Kingdom. Each God’s Wife adopted her successor. Amenirdis would have been pr...
Lavish coronation ceremonies marked the succession of a God’s Wife to office. God’s Wives received throne names and had their names written in cartouches just like the kings of Egypt. They were endowed with their own estates, property, staff, and administrators. Their tombs were on the grounds of Ramesses III’s temple at Medinet Habu in Thebes inst...
The New Kingdom conquest of Nubia brought with it a major shift in Nubian funerary practices. No longer flexed and laid on beds, bodies were now extended and often buried in coffins of mummiform shape with face or coffin masks like the ones in the New Kingdom and Napatan case. Egyptian jewelry was placed on the bodies and the furnishings of the gra...
Pyramids built in Nubia were modeled after small, steep-sided pyramids often used for private tombs in Egypt. After the Egyptian conquest, such pyramids, made of mud brick, soon appeared in several cemeteries in northern Nubia and also farther south at Napata. Chapels associated with the pyramids were decorated with tomb scenes in Egyptian style. H...
God's Wife of Amun ( Egyptian: ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt. The cult was centered in Thebes in Upper Egypt during the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth dynasties (circa 740–525 BC). The office had political importance as well as religious, since the ...
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Mar 10, 2017 · The position of God 's Wife of Amun was one of the most politically powerful and spiritually significant in later Egyptian history. Elevated from a figurehead in the New Kingdom (c.1570-1069 BCE), the God's Wife of Amun would hold power equal to a pharaoh by the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt (c. 1069-525 BCE) when a God's Wife ruled Upper ...
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God's wife of Amun in the Late Period. The office of the 'God's wife of Amun', already important in the New Kingdom (about 1550-1069 BC) and in the late 22nd Dynasty, became especially influential in the 25th and 26th Dynasty. Kings placed their daughters in this position, while the succession of one 'God's wife' to the next was made by adoption.
Divine Adoratrice of Amun. The Divine Adoratrice of Amun ( Egyptian: dwꜣt nṯr n jmn) was a second title – after God's Wife of Amun – created for the chief priestess of the ancient Egyptian deity Amun. During the first millennium BCE, when the holder of this office exercised her largest measure of influence, her position was an important ...
This paper relates the content of Amenirdis’s selections from the Pyramid Texts to their physical placement along the walls of her funerary chapel and argues that the particular arrangement of the texts was intended to guide Amenirdis out of her funerary chapel and to lead her toward the North sky.
