Arty (queen)

Arty
Queen consort of Nubia and Egypt
Royal Wife
Burial
Ku. 6 in El-Kurru
SpousePharaoh Shebitku
Dynasty25th Dynasty of Egypt
FatherKing Piye
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Z1		 V13iiB1
[1]
Arty
in hieroglyphs
Era: 3rd Intermediate Period
(1069–664 BC)

Arty was a Nubian King's wife dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.[2]

Arty was a daughter of King Piye and was the wife of Shebitku. She is known from Cairo Statue 49157 from Karnak. Her name is mentioned on the base of a statue of Haremakhet.[1]

She was buried in the necropolis at El-Kurru, in tomb Ku.6.[2]

  1. ^ a b Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 142
  2. ^ a b Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.236-238