Persenet
Sign in to savePersenet (Personet, Per-sent) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the 4th Dynasty. She may have been a daughter of Pharaoh Khufu and a wife of Pharaoh Khafre. She is mainly known from her tomb at Giza (G 8156).
Person
- Born
- 2600-01-01
- Died
- 2600-01-01
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Key facts
- Hieroglyphs.name
- pr:r-hatching
- Hieroglyphs.name transcription
- pr-[..]
- Hieroglyphs.name explanation
- Per[..]
- Hieroglyphs.name2
- pr:r-O34:n:t
- Hieroglyphs.name2 transcription
- pr-snt (reconstructed)
- Hieroglyphs.name2 explanation
- Persenet
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 1 January 2600 BCE
- Died
- 1 January 2600 BCE
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Spouse
- Khafra
- Child
- Nikaure
- Father
- Khufu
- Occupation
- consort
- Family
- Fourth Dynasty of Egypt
- Noble title
- queen consort
- Image
- LG88.jpg
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Article
3 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Tomb
- References
Persenet (Personet, Per-sent) was an ancient Egyptian queen consort of the 4th Dynasty. She may have been a daughter of Pharaoh Khufu and a wife of Pharaoh Khafre. She is mainly known from her tomb at Giza (G 8156).
==Biography== thumb|left|50px|Partial name of Persenet from her tomb in Giza According to Grajetzki, Persenet's full set of titles was: great of sceptre (wr.t-ḥts), king's beloved wife (ḥm.t-nỉswt mrỉỉt=f) and king's daughter of his body (sat-niswt-nt-xtf). The position of her tomb suggests that she was the wife of king Khafre and possibly a daughter of Khufu. Persenet may be the mother of the vizier Nikaure.