Neferu-Re

Neferu -Re, also Neferure ( proper name spelling), the eldest daughter of Hatshepsut and Thutmose II was

Notes

Neferu -Re is mentioned in seven localities, especially in the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el- Bahri, on the Senmut statue in Karnak and a stele in the Sinai.

Family

Her half-brother Thutmose III. was a descendant of Thutmose II and his concubine Isis. Thutmose II died after a probable reign of 13 years.

Life

The training Neferu -Res was initially entrusted to the officials Ahmose Pen - Nekhbet in early childhood. Later this task was Senmut. Neferu -Re was probably originally intended as a successor to the throne, which would explain the high title God's Wife of Amun. The meaning and interpretation of this title, written down at the Red Chapel at Karnak, played an important role in the temple rituals. Hatshepsut, who was at that time still Queen, needed a female person for the role of the High Priestess and entrusted her daughter Neferu -Re with this task.

Evidence of a marriage to Thutmose III. missing to this day. In their previously present songs dips her name as the Great Royal Wife or king consort not to. It is unclear why Thutmose III. her name was replaced by that of his chief wife Satiah on a relief in the 23rd or 24th year of reign. This Satiah came posthumously to her title God's Wife of Amun.

Her death

Neferu -Re practiced until her death in 23 or 24 year of reign (about 1456 BC) of Thutmosis III. the Office of the God's Wife of Amun. Previous assumptions that Neferu -Re died between the eleventh and sixteenth year reign of Hatshepsut, are superseded by the detection of the representation of the usurped Neferu -Re.