Tentamun (18th dynasty)

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

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

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. 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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