Merytre-Hatshepsut
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Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut (or sometimes Hatshepsut-Meryet-Ra) was the principal wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III, and mother of Pharaoh Amenhotep II.[1] Of noble birth, she was the daughter of the Adoratrix Huy, whose statue in the British Museum (EA 1280) shows Huy holding a grandchild and represents the other children of Thutomose III and Merytre-Hatshepsut along the sides of her seated statue. She is not related to Queen Hatshepsut, the previous pharaoh of Egypt, though previously was often thought to be her daughter. (Hatshepsut's only known child is Neferure).
Merytre-Hatshepsut was originally meant to be interred in KV42, but was probably interred in KV35, with her son Amenhotep II.
[edit] References
- ^ Dodson, A. and D. Hilton 2004. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt London: Thames and Hudson. p.139
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