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Hetephernebti

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Also known as Hotephirnebty

Hetephernebti was a queen of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was the only known wife of Pharaoh Djoser.

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Royalty.name
Hetephernebti
Royalty.title
Queen consort of Egypt
Royalty.image
Hetephernebti.png
Royalty.caption
Hetephernebti (center) at the feet of her husband, Djoser, next to her daughter Inetkaes (left), and a third woman whose name is lost (right) on one of the boundary stele from Djoser's pyramid at Saqqara
Royalty.spouse
Djoser
Royalty.issue
Inetkaes♀
Royalty.father
Khasekhemwy?
Royalty.mother
Nimaathap?
Royalty.dynasty
Third Dynasty of Egypt

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Hetephernebti was a queen of the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom of ancient Egypt. She was the only known wife of Pharaoh Djoser.

Hetephernebti and a King's Daughter Inetkaes were named on stelae found around Djoser's Saqqara pyramid complex and on a Heliopolis relief showing Djoser accompanied by the two of them.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hetephernebti” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.