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Abar (queen)

Field	Value
name	Abar
title	Queen consort of Nubia and Egypt
King's Mother, Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt, etc
image	Abar.jpg
caption	Taharqa followed by his mother Queen Abar. Gebel Barkal - room C (Lepsius: Denkmäler)
place of burial	Possibly Nuri (Nuri 35)
spouse	Pharaoh Piye
issue	Pharaoh Taharqa
dynasty	25th Dynasty of Egypt
mother	A sister of Alara of Nubia

King's Mother, Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt, etc

Abar was a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt. She is known from a series of stela found in Sudan and Egypt. Her appearances mark her as the niece of King Alara of Nubia, married to King Piye and the mother of King Taharqa.

Life

Abar, a Nubian queen of the Kingdom of Kush dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt, is known from a stela (Stela V) found in Kawa, Sudan, recording that she was dedicated as a sistrum player at the temple by her father, as well in a similar scene at Jebel Barkal where she appears behind her son Taharqa and from a stela from Tanis, Egypt. Another appearance by Abar is at the Amun Temple at Sanam, Sudan.

Abar was the mother of King Taharqa and married to the King Piye. She was a niece of King Alara of Nubia (the daughter of his sister). She was separated from her son, Taharqa, for a long period of time and when they were reunited there was much rejoicing as he had become Pharaoh in her absence. This may have been a deliberate reference to the separation of the Egyptian god Isis and her son Horus, who reunited under similar circumstances. An alternative theory is that the separation of mother and son was a tradition in the Kushite culture.

She held several titles: King's Mother (egy), King's Sister (egy), Mistress of the foreign lands (egy), Lady of Upper and Lower Egypt (egy), Great Lady of the Two Lands (egy), Noble Lady (egy), Great of Praises (egy), and Sweet of Love (egy). Records of Abar represent the earliest recording of the power of Queens in the Kingdom of Kush. Reisner proposed that Abar may be buried in Nuri in tomb 35.

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