Atakhebasken

Atakhebasken^[1]
in hieroglyphs

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

Atakhebasken (Akhetbasaken) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.^[2] 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.^[3]^[1] Her tomb was enlarged after the chapel had already been built.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b Grajetski, Wolfram. (2005) Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary Golden House Publications. ISBN 0954721896.
^ 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.
^ 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.
^ Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic Empires, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998, p. 108. ISBN 0-7141-0986-X.

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[WG-1] 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.

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