| Sekhmakh | |
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| Queen consort of Meroë King's Daughter King's Wife Mistress of Egypt | |
 Detail of Sekhmakh from the stela of Nastasen | |
| Queen regnant of Meroë? | |
| Reign | ???? BC - ???? BC |
| Spouse | Nastasen |
| Father | Harsiotef? |
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| Sekhmakh Sḫ m3ḫ in hieroglyphs | |||||||||||
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Sekhmakh was the wife of the Nubian king Nastasen, who ruled in the 4th century BC.
Sekhmakh is known from the great stela of the king, where she is depicted in the roundel. She is also known from her funerary stela, found in a temple at Jebel Barkal and obviously reused. The burial, where the stela was once placed is unknown. Sekhmakh bears the titles king's daughter, king's wife and mistress of Egypt. Her royal parents are unknown.
Sekhmakh had a Horus name and is referred to as "king" on a stela from Jebel Barkal, possibly indicating that she was a queen regnant or had some kind of role that was a precursor to the reigning queens of Meroë.
References
- ^ Eide, Tormod (1994). Fontes Historiae Nubiorum: From the mid-fifth to the first century BC. University of Bergen, Department of Classics. ISBN 978-82-91626-01-7.
- Khartum 1853
- Török, László (2021-10-01). The Image of the Ordered World in Ancient Nubian Art: The Construction of the Kushite Mind, 800 BC - 300 AD. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-49355-1.
- Joyce Haynes; Mimi Santini-Ritt (2012). "Women in Ancient Nubia". In Marjorie M. Fisher; Peter Lacovara; Salma Ikram; Sue D'Auria (eds.). Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. The American University in Cairo Press. p. 173.
Literature
- Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, 468, ISBN 978-82-91626-01-7