Tentamun
King's Daughter
Burial
KV43
Egyptian name
U33n
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DynastyEighteenth Dynasty
FatherThutmose IV

Tentamun was an ancient Egyptian princess of the Eighteenth Dynasty during the New Kingdom. She was a daughter of Thutmose IV.[1]

Tentamun died in the same year as her father. She was buried in the Valley of the Kings in tomb KV43 together with her father and with a brother called Amenemhat.[2] A fragment of a canopic jar belonging to Tentamun was found in the tomb. The fragment is now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.[1]

Sources

  1. 1 2 Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.140.
  2. ↑ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.135
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