Relief of Osiris, green-skinned
Tomb of Nefertari (QV66), Valley of the Queens, West Thebes.
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Horus guides Queen Nefertari into the Underworld.
Translations of the accompanying texts:
"Djed medu in Hor sa Ast" - WORDS SPOKEN BY HORUS, SON OF ISIS
"Hemt weret Nebet Tawy Nefertari ankhti maat-kheru kher Asir netcher aa" - THE GREAT QUEEN, LADY OF THE TWO LANDS, NEFERTARI, GRANTED LIFE, TRUE OF VOICE BEFORE OSIRIS, THE GREAT GOD
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Re in his ram-headed form, from the tomb of Queen Nefertari (QV66)
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Day 18: Nefertari!
Nefertari, Great Royal Wife of Ramesses the Great, was queen of Egypt during a golden age for the empire. Her origins, however, are unknown - she wasn’t a close relative of Ramesses, but may have had ties to the royal family of the previous dynasty.
She was highly educated for a noblewoman, and her husband, who she married before his ascension to the throne, seems to have valued her political assistance and advice. In addition to her standard queenly titles, he dubbed her “the one for whom the sun shines,” and constructed an independent temple for her beside his own at Abu Simbel.
Nefertari conducted her own diplomatic correspondence; she’s known to have sent letters and gifts to another powerful queen consort, Puduhepa of the Hittites, encouraging her to support close ties with Egypt, and in one of her tomb portraits is shown wearing Greek earrings, potentially the result of another exchange.
Nefertari died approximately twenty-five years into Ramesses’ rule. He constructed a lavish tomb for her, one of the largest in the Valley of the Queens. Though the tomb was looted, and her mummy either lost or unidentified, many of the wall paintings, some of the most beautiful in Egypt, survive to the present day.
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Imhotep haunting the grounds of Abu Simbel.
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Tomb of queen Nefertari Meritenmut (1300-1256 BC, 19th dynasty) Great Royal Wife of Ramses II the Great.
Valley of the Kings #Egypt
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With this meiker, I created Nefertari based off of her funeral portraits to the best of my accuracy.
Here's the link to the meiker if you want to create your own!
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Osiris and Anubis in the tomb of Nefertari
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Imentet and Re from the tomb of Nefertari
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Period drama's dresses tournament: White dresses Round 1- Group B: Helen of Troy, Troy (gifset) vs Nefertari, The ten commandments (full dress in the sixth gif of this gifset)
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The Goddess Isis (right) leads Queen Nefertari into the afterlife. The tomb of Nefertari - ca. 1290-1224 B.C. - in the Valley of the Queens; Luxor, Egypt.
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