Satiah

Satiah (also Sat- Iah, Sitiah ) was an ancient Egyptian queen at the time of the New Kingdom in the 18th Dynasty.

Background

Family

Her mother Ipu held the office of the royal nurse. Maybe her father was Ahmose Pen - Nekhbet, whose career began as a civil servant under Ahmose I and Thutmose III to. continue on its course took. Above descendants of Satiah so far no evidence before, but there is the possibility that Prince Amenemhat in front of his father Thutmose III. died, her son was.

Your Life

As a royal wife Satiah led next to the title Great Royal Wife also the God's Wife of Amun. Whether she really the office of God's Wife of Amun held, is considered in Egyptology as rather unlikely. Hatshepsut had initially her daughter Neferu Re - appointed as God's Wife of Amun.

Neferu -Re practiced until her death in 23 or 24 year of reign (about 1456 BC) of Thutmosis III. out their duties. After her death, Thutmose III replaced. its name to the relief of by the Satiah. The reason for this remains unclear. This Satiah came posthumously to her title God's Wife of Amun. Satiah died during the reign of Thutmose III. , Who married after her death Meritre Hatshepsut and appointed to the Great Royal Wife.