Ancient queens consort

Salome (; , related to , "peace"; ), also known as Salome III, was a Jewish princess, the daughter of Herod II and princess Herodias. She was granddaughter of Herod the Great and stepdaughter of Herod Antipas. She is known from the New Testament, where she is not named, and from an account by Josephus. In the New Testament, the stepdaughter of Herod Antipas demands and receives the head of John the Baptist. According to Josephus, she was first married to her uncle Philip the Tetrarch, after the death of which in AD 34, she married her cousin Aristobulus of Chalcis, thus becoming queen of

queen; mother of the Buddha

Queen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE

1st century CE member of the Herodian Dynasty that ruled the Roman province of Judaea

daughter or granddaughter of the king Cyaxares, and the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II

thumb|Glaphyra from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum|Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Glaphyra (; ) was an Anatolian princess from Cappadocia, and a Queen of Mauretania by her second marriage to King Juba II of Mauretania. She was related to the Herodian dynasty by her first and third marriage, to Alexander, son of Herod and Herod Archelaus, respectively.

wife of Rhadamistus

Aryenis (; ) was, according to Herodotus, the daughter of the Lydian king Alyattes and the sister of the Lydian king Croesus.

Queen of Gaya

Soseono (; 66/7 – 6 BC) or Yeon Soseono () was the second wife of King Dongmyeong and a key figure in the establishment of both Goguryeo and Paekche. She was the mother of Biryu and Onjo.

sister-wife of Mithridates VI of Pontus

Tashlultum () was a wife of King Sargon of Akkad. Her name is known to archaeology only from a single shard of an alabaster vase or bowl with an inscription indicating it was dedicated to the temple by her steward/scribe. This dedication provides insight into the position and features of Akkadian queenship: it is notable that Tashlultum had staff which included men, and these men were learned officials.

1st century AD queen of Adiabene and consort of Abgar V, King of Osrhoene

Shibtu (died 1761 BC) was the wife of Zimri-Lim and queen consort of the ancient city-state of Mari in modern-day Syria. Historian Abraham Malamat described her as "the most prominent of the Mari ladies."

thumb | right | alt=Hittite relief from Firaktin, copy in the Museum of Kayseri: Puduhepa and Hepat. | Hittite relief from Fıraktın relief|Firaktin, copy in the Museum of Kayseri: Puduhepa (right) and [[Ḫepat (left).]] Tawananna is the title for the queen of the Hittites, the king's consort, as long as she was living. Upon her death the title Tawananna passed to her daughter or the new king's consort, whichever was available to ascend. The Hittites were ruled by a theocratic monarchy, in which the king's heir's wife did not succeed as Tawananna until the death of the reigning Tawananna.

fifth wife of Herod the Great

mythical queen regnant of the Britons

Baranamtarra (died 2375 BC) was the Queen consort of Lagash.

First wife of king Bimbisara

thumb|Zarmanduxt.jpg124 Zarmandukht (also spelled Zarmanduxt; fl. 383) was the consort of King Pap of Arsacid Armenia, who ruled from 370 to 374. She was regent of Armenia during the minority of her sons, co-rulers Arsaces (Arshak) III and Vologases (Vagharshak) II, who ruled from 378 to 386/387.

Trishala, also known as Videhadatta, Priyakarini, or Trishala Mata (Mother Trishala), was the mother of Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, and wife of the Gaṇa Mukhya, Siddhartha of Kundagrama, of present-day Bihar. She finds mention in the Jain texts.

Etuta (ruled 169 – 168 BC) was an Illyrian queen of the Ardiaean Kingdom, married to Gentius. Etuta was a Dardanian princess, the daughter of Monunius II of Dardania.

Iltani (), was the wife of the ruler Aqba-hammu. Her archive was discovered in the palace of Karana (modern day Tell al-Rimah). The main group of tablets from the archive consisted of about 200 letters and administrative records, which directly concern the queen.

Ahatmilku () was a king's daughter from the Land of Amurru, who became king's wife of Niqmepa of Ugarit.

1st century Roman client queen of the Bosporan Kingdom

Amage () (fl. 2nd-century BC) was a Sarmatian queen. According to the writings of Polyaenus, she was the wife of the Sarmatian king Medosacus (Μηδόσακκος). she ruled as regent to a dissolute husband. They were from the coast of the Euxine Sea.

queen of Goguryeo

== Napir Asu == Elamite queen and wife of King Untash-Napirisha represented in a mutilated copper and bronze statue widely regarded as a masterpiece of ancient metalwork. The sculpture provides one of the finest surviving representations of elite garments from antiquity and constitutes one of the rare extant depictions of a royal queen.

In British legend, Cambra was the daughter of Belinus the Great, a legendary king of the Britons, and married to Antenor, the second King of the Cimmerians. The Cimmerians changed the name of their tribe to Sicambri in honor of Cambra. Cambra's son by Antenor, Priamus the Younger, succeeded his father when he was twenty-six.

Wife of King Hyspaosines

Queen of Emesa, daughter of Mithridates III, spouse of Sampsiceramus II

wife of Herod Agrippa