Ankhesenpepi I
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Ankhesenpepi I or Ankhesenmeryre I was a queen consort during the sixth dynasty of Egypt. She and her sister Ankhesenpepi II were the daughters of Khui and the vizier Nebet and were sisters of the Vizier Djau[1]. Both were married to Pharaoh Pepi I whose throne name was Meryre; their name was probably taken when the marriage took place, since it means “Her life belongs to Pepi/Meryre”. Both queens gave birth to successors of Pepi: the son of Ankhesenpepi I was Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, who ruled only for a few years; the son of Ankhesenpepi II was Pepi II, who succeeded after Nemtyemsaf's death.[2]
She is mentioned together with her sister on their brother's stela in Abydos, also, at her pyramid, on an inscription now in Berlin, and a decree in Abydos.[3]
Her titles were: King's Wife, King's Mother, Great of Sceptre.[4]
[edit] Source
- ^ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, pp.16,73
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.71
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.74
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.74
