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Nitocris I |
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- «b»http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitocris_I_(Divine_Adoratrice)
Nitocris I«/b» (alt. «b»Nitiqret«/b», «b»Nitokris«/b» «b»I«/b») (died «u»585 BC «/u») served as the heir to and then the «u»Divine Adoratrice of Amun «/u» or «u»God's Wife of Amun «/u» for a period of over seventy years, between 655 BC and 585 BC.«u»[1]«/u» She was the daughter of the Saite Dynasty 26 king «u»Psamtik I «/u». Psamtik I dispatched a powerful naval fleet in March 656 BC to «u»Thebes «/u» and compelled the serving «u»God's Wife of Amun «/u» Shepenupet II, a daughter of «u»Piye «/u» to adopt his daughter Nitocris I as her heir to this office in the well known «u»Adoption Stela «/u».«u»[2]«/u» It is unknown at what date she actually assumed the office of Divine Adoratrice of Amun for herself but she served in this position until Year 4 of «u»Apries «/u» in 585 BC.
Prior to her career in this office, the «u»Assyrians «/u» had invaded Egypt in 671 B.C., sacked «u»Thebes «/u» and robbed its temples of their many treasures. When she was in her eighties, she adopted her great-niece «u»Ankhnesneferibre [3]«/u», the daughter of «u»Psamtik II «/u».
During her tenure, she was attested by several building works around Karnak, Luxor and Abydos.«u»[4]«/u» She was buried in the grounds of «u»Medinet-Habu [5]«/u» in a tomb chapel which "she shared with her natural mother and adoptive grandmother."«u»[6]«/u» Her sarcophagus was reused in a Ptolemaic tomb at Deir el-Medina, and is today located in the «u»Cairo Museum «/u».«u»[7]
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«b»References
«u»1. ^«/u»«/b» Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p.247
«u»«b»2. ^«/u»«/b» James H. Breasted, «i»Ancient Records of Egypt,«/i» Part Four, §§ 942ff.: The adoption stela of Nitocris
«u»«b»3, ^«/u»«/b» I. E. S. Edwards, John Boardman, John B. Bury, S. A. Cook, «i»The Cambridge Ancient History«/i», p.733
«u»«b»4. ^«/u»«/b» Dodson & Hilton, p.247
«u»«b»5. ^«/u»«/b» Pascal Vernus, Jean Yoyotte, «i»The Book of the Pharaohs«/i», Cornell University Press 2003. p.1
«u»«b»6. ^«/u»«/b» Dodson & Hilton, p.247
«u»«b»7. ^«/u»«/b» Dodson & Hilton, p.247
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Glenn Cook Family |
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Relief of the Divine Adoratice Nitocris I from her Karnak chapel |
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