Atakhebasken

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Atakhebasken
in hieroglyphs
Era: 3rd Intermediate Period
(1069–664 BC)

Atakhebasken (Akhetbasaken) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Taharqa.

Burial

Atakhebasken is mainly known from her tomb in Nuri (Nu. 36). The finds from the tomb include: a shawabti, canopic jars, which are now in Boston, and an altar now in the Meroe Museum in Khartoum. Her tomb was enlarged after the chapel had already been built.

References

  1. 1 2 Grajetski, Wolfram. (2005) Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary Golden House Publications. ISBN 0954721896.
  2. ↑ Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, pp. 234-240. ISBN 0-500-05128-3. LCCN 2003-110207. OL 3697922M.
  3. ↑ Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149. JSTOR 3855222.
  4. ↑ Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic Empires, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998, p. 108. ISBN 0-7141-0986-X.