#mutnodjmet

[tiny-librarian]

Calcite canopic jar; lid in the form of a human head; three columns of incised Hieroglyphic text on the body including the cartouche of Queen Mutnodjmet.

She was the Great Royal Wife of Horemheb, the last Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty, and is thought by some to have been the sister of Nefertiti. She died in her mid 40s, and was buried in her husband’s unused tomb near Memphis.

With her was the mummy of a stillborn, premature infant, meaning it’s highly likely she died in childbirth. Analysis of her mummy showed she’d supposedly given birth several times, but Horemheb had no children at the time of his death.

He was succeeded by his vizier, who would be known as Ramesses I.

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[emthehistorygirl]

A third Princess.  Three Girls in a row. The herald announced the child’s name, Ankhesenpaaten, meaning, ‘She who lives for the Glory of the Aten’ and I saw the tears of joy in Akhenaten’s eyes

Mutnodjmet; ‘Nefertiti’ by Michelle Moran, pg. 290

[emthehistorygirl]

King Tutankhamun ascended the dais to the Horus Throne with the Princess Ankhesenamun by his side, and I watched my father [Aye] whisper in his ear the way he had done with Nefertiti

Mutnodjmet; ‘Nefertiti’ by Michelle Moran, pg 419

[emthehistorygirl]

A shiver passed through me as I thought of Nefertiti's city, lying in the sand, swept away by the winds of time.  Everything she had worked so hard for had failed.  But there was Ankhesenamun.  I looked up at the dais and at the little girl who looked so much like my sister... how much would this child remember of her mother?  She turned her gaze in my direction, the same dark eyes and willowy neck and I wondered what she and my son would write together on the pillars of eternity

Mutnodjmet; ‘Nefertiti’ by Michelle Moran

Tutankhamun is the son of Kiya who dies giving birth, Mutnodjmet and her husband general Nakhtmin raise Tutankhamun and that is why she refers to him as ‘my son’

[emthehistorygirl]

She [Mutnodjmet] sat beside her husband on his coronation statue, and a scene on the side of his throne shows her as a winged human-headed sphinx wearing the tall flat-topped plant crown associ· ated with Tefnut and Queen Tiy. She was also featured in the inscription of the Luxor temple, inscriptions which she had usurped from her niece, Ankhesenamun. Mutnodjmet died some time during her husband' regnal Year 14-15 and was probably buried, as Amenia may have been before her, in his Saqqara tomb. Female human remains recovered from the tomb are assumed to belong to Mutnodjmet; these had been buried with the body of a newborn baby or foetus, suggesting that the middle· aged queen may have died attempting to provide her husband with an heir.

Mutnodjmet, in, J. Tyldesley, Chronicles of the Queens of Egypr

[tiny-librarian]

Calcite canopic jar; lid in the form of a human head; three columns of incised Hieroglyphic text on the body including the cartouche of Queen Mutnodjmet.

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[tiny-librarian]

"But she's had only princesses." "There's still hope," my mother said, and something about her tone made me lean forward. "She isn't -" My mother nodded. "Three months after Ankhesenpaaten?" My lip trembled. Then surely this one would be a boy, and Nebnefer would be forgotten and our family would be safe. So Nefertiti was pregnant with a fourth child. Four.

Nefertiti - Michelle Moran