Henutmire
Sign in to saveHenutmire was an ancient Egyptian princess and queen. She was one of the eight Great Royal Wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt.
Key facts
- Royalty.title
- Queen consort of EgyptGreat Royal WifeLady of The Two LandsMistress of Upper and Lower Egypt, etc
- Royalty.image
- Henutmire.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Henutmire on a statue of Queen Tuya. The lower part of the small figure of Henutmira underwent a restoration in the 17th or 18th century which mistakenly attributed it a male kilt.
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Egyptian name
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- Two variations:N5-V28 W24*t:W10 W19-iV28-W24*t:W10 N5 W19-i R8
- Royalty.burial_place
- QV75
- Royalty.spouse
- Ramesses II
- Royalty.dynasty
- 19th Dynasty of Egypt
- Royalty.father
- Ramesses II or Seti I
- Royalty.mother
- unknown wife of Ramesses II or Tuya
- Royalty.religion
- Ancient Egyptian religion
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- Henutmire.jpg
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- date of death
- 1300-01-01
- date of birth
- 1300-01-01
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Henutmire was an ancient Egyptian princess and queen. She was one of the eight Great Royal Wives of Pharaoh Ramesses II of the 19th Dynasty of Egypt.
==Life== She is supposedly the third and youngest child of Seti I and Tuya, and the younger sister of Ramesses II and Tia. This theory is based on a statue of Queen Tuya, now in the Vatican. The statue shows Tuya with Henutmire, thus it is assumed that they were mother and daughter. However, this inference is not necessarily valid. A pair of crotales from the Amarna period links Tiye with Meritaten, bearing only the inscription: "Great Royal Wife, Tiye, may she live, King’s daughter, Meritaten." Tiye was Meritaten’s grandmother, not her mother. She is also nowhere mentioned as "King's Sister", a title which Princess Tia used, thus it cannot be concluded solely from Tuya's statues that she was Ramesses' sister.