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Sekhmakh

4th-century BC Nubian queen consort

Sekhmakh

4th-century BC Nubian queen consort

FieldValue
nameSekhmakh
titleQueen consort of Meroë
King's Daughter
King's Wife
Mistress of Egypt
image[[File:Sekhmakh.jpgSekhmakh]]
image_size220px
altDetail of Sekhmakh from the stela of Nastasen
captionDetail of Sekhmakh from the stela of Nastasen
successionQueen regnant of Meroë?
reign???? BC - ???? BC
spouseNastasen
fatherHarsiotef?

King's Daughter King's Wife Mistress of Egypt Sekhmakh was the wife of the Nubian king Nastasen, who ruled in the 4th century BC.

Sekhmakh is known from the great stela of the king, where she is depicted in the roundel. She is also known from her funerary stela, found in a temple at Jebel Barkal and obviously reused. The burial, where the stela was once placed is unknown. Sekhmakh bears the titles king's daughter, king's wife and mistress of Egypt. Her royal parents are unknown.

Sekhmakh had a Horus name and is referred to as "king" on a stela from Jebel Barkal, possibly indicating that she was a queen regnant or had some kind of role that was a precursor to the reigning queens of Meroë.

King Nastasen making offerings to the gods with his mother Pelkha (left) and his wife Sekhmakh (far right).

References

Literature

  • Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, 468,

References

  1. Eide, Tormod. (1994). "Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: From the mid-fifth to the first century BC". University of Bergen, Department of Classics.
  2. Khartum 1853
  3. Török, László. (2021-10-01). "The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art: The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 BC - 300 AD". BRILL.
  4. (2012). "Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile". The American University in Cairo Press.
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