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Nubkhaes {nbw-ḫꜥ⸗s} was a queen in ancient Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. Several of her family members were officials during the late 13th Dynasty. Her name means The Gold [=Hathor] appearsand she held the titles Great Royal Wife and the one united with the beauty of the white crown.

Key facts

Royalty.name
Nubkhaes
Royalty.title
Great Royal Wife
Royalty.image
File:Stèle de la reine Noubkhâs, N 167 (032007 32).jpg
Royalty.caption
Stela of Queen Nubkhaes in the Louvre
Royalty.father
Dedusobek Bebi
Royalty.mother
Duatnofret
Royalty.issue
Khonsoukhoufsy Renseneb (daughter); Bebires (daughter); Douatnefret (daughter)

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Instance of
human
Gender
female
Sibling
Sobekemsaf
Noble title
Great Royal Wife
Image
Stèle de la reine Noubkhâs, N 167 (032007 32).jpg
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date of birth
1700-00-00
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Nubkhaes {nbw-ḫꜥ⸗s} was a queen in ancient Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. Several of her family members were officials during the late 13th Dynasty. Her name means The Gold [=Hathor] appearsand she held the titles Great Royal Wife and the one united with the beauty of the white crown.

She is so far only known from her family stela now in the Louvre and a few later references. The stela is the main monument of the queen. Here is mentioned her father Dedusobek Bebi and other family members, many of them high court officials. These are all datable to about the time of king Sobekhotep IV. The husband of the queen is not mentioned on the stela, but it is assumed that he was one of the successors of Sobekhotep IV, as his wife is known and Nubkhaes belongs to a generation after Sobekhotep IV. Khonsoukhoufsy Renseneb was a daughter of the queen. She married a vizier coming from Elkab.

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