Nubhetepti-khered

Nubhetepti - chered, also Nub - hetepti - chered ( in proper names spelling: Nubheteptichered ), was an Egyptian princess of the 13th dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ), who lived around 1750 BC. Her grave was found in the pyramid of Amenemhat III. at Dahshur next to the grave of King (Pharaoh) Hor and was unsecured robbed.

Identity

The identity of the princess is uncertain. She was perhaps a daughter of King Hor you is not been established with certainty outside her tomb, but where there are several queens this time with the name Nubhetepti, where Nubhetepti - chered, Nubhetepti, the child, or Nubhetepti, the little girl is, and the name implies, that there was a queen or princess named Nubhetepti who was older.

Her grave

In the tomb of this king's daughter is a shaft grave, whose superstructure is no longer maintained. At the end of the shaft there were two chambers one above the other. In the upper chamber was found mainly ceramic model, a chest with eight Salbgefäßen and another chest with bars, weapons and royal insignia.

Below this chamber was the actual grave chamber. Nubhetepti - chered had been buried in a set of three coffins. There was an outer undecorated, sunken into the ground rock sarcophagus, a middle studded with gold foil wooden coffin and an inner anthropomorphic ( anthropoid ) coffin, which was however already fallen into disrepair in the discovery and was not recognized as such. On the corpse was found of various jewelry, such as a neck collar and arm and leg jewelry. Located next to the corpse, which was only preserved as a skeleton, in turn, were various royal insignia, weapons and sticks, which undoubtedly identified the princess as Osiris, king of the underworld. In addition to the sarcophagus found a shod with gold leaf canopic chest, in which a set of four canopic jars was.

Research

The grave was excavated in 1894 by Jacques de Morgan. The finds are now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.