Mut Nedjmet, a non-reigning Egyptian queen
Mut-Najmat was an ancient Egyptian queen who was not a ruler or the wife of a king. She lived at the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty, and she was the wife of King Horemheb, the last king of this dynasty.
Najmet's death as Queen Nefertiti's sister
Some Egyptologists have concluded that Mot-Negmet corresponds to Queen Nefertiti's sister, Motbenert. This unification was based in part on the fact that the name Motbenert was read as Mot Najmt due to the similarity of the signs Banr ???? and Najm ???? in shape. Other Egyptology researchers, such as Geoffrey Martin, pointed out that there is no clear evidence to prove this correspondence between the two figures. Martin wrote the following:
The name Mut-Najmet was not rare, especially in the late Eighteenth Dynasty, and even if she was Nefertiti’s sister, her marriage to Horemheb had no effect on Horemheb’s legitimacy or his right to the throne, as Mut-Najmat (depicted in the private tombs at Tell el-Amarna) was not the same name. Royal blood. In any case, whatever the origins of Mot-Najmet, she married Horemheb shortly before he became pharaoh.
Inscriptions and monuments
Queen Mot Najmet was known from several inscriptions and objects, including:
A double statue of Horemheb and Mut-Nedemt was found at Karnak, and is now in the Egizio Museum in Turin, Italy (1379). On the side of Najmat's death from the throne, she is depicted in the form of a winged sphinx worshiping her own cartouche. The Sphinx is depicted wearing a flat-topped crown with floral elements associated with the goddess Tefnut. The back of the statue records King Horemheb's ascension to the throne of Egypt.
Horemheb and the death of Nedjemat were also depicted in the tomb of Roy (TT255) in the area of Dhara’ Abi al-Naga in the Theban cemetery. The royal couple appears in a scene of offering sacrifices.
One of the colossal statues in the Karnak temples (north side of the tenth pylon) was made for King Horemheb and also depicts Queen Mut-Negmet. But then the statue was usurped and repurposed for King Ramesses II and his wife, Queen Nefertari.
Mut-Negmat also usurped several inscriptions from Ankhes-en-Amun, wife of King Tutankhamun, in Luxor.
Statues (fragments of which) and other objects, including fragments of alabaster mentioning the name of Queen Mut-Negmet, were found in the Saqqara tomb of King Horemheb before he became king. Some of these objects carry funerary texts.
Her titles
Titles held by Queen Mout Najmet include:
Hereditary princess
The great royal wife.
Great praise.
Lady of Giving.
Sweet love.
Lady of the South and the North.
Singer of the goddess Hathor.
Singer of the god Amun.
Her death and burial
Queen Mut-Negmet died shortly after year 13 of her husband's reign in her mid-forties, based on a list of wine jars found in the burial chamber of Horemheb's tomb at Saqqara and a statue and other objects found there. The mummy was found in an unused exiled-style tomb belonging to King Horemheb, along with the mummy of a child who died at birth due to premature birth. She appears to have been buried in that exiled tomb of Horemheb with his first wife, Amenia. The mummy of Queen Mut-Negmet shows that she gave birth several times, but the last king of the Eighteenth Dynasty or her husband, King Horemheb, did not have a living heir upon his death. It has been suggested that she had a daughter who is simply not mentioned on any trace. . The presence of the infant with Queen Mut Najmat in the tomb indicates that this queen died during childbirth. One of the Queen's canopic vessels is currently in the British Museum.
It is possible that the tomb bearing the scientific number QV33 in the Valley of the Queens was originally built for her. It is known that the tomb is currently known to be that of an unknown woman named Tanjimet, but both cartouches containing her name were damaged, and the similarity of the hieroglyphic symbols for the syllables ta and mut allows for this interpretation.
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