Tausret

Tausret
Twosret, Tawosret
Drawing of a Portrait of Tausret from her tomb in Thebes by Émile Prisse d'Avennes (1878).
Pharaoh
Reign	1191–1189 BC
Predecessor	Siptah
Successor	Setnakhte
Royal titulary Horus name Kanakht Merymaat Kꜣ-nḫt-mrj-Mꜣꜥ.t Strong bull, beloved of Maat Kanakht Merymaat Nebanemnisutmiitum Kꜣ-nḫt-mrj-Mꜣꜥ.t-nb-ꜥn-m-nsw-mj-Jtm Strong bull, beloved of Maat, Lord beautiful of kingship, like Atum Nebty name Geregkemet Wafkhasut Grg-Kmt-wꜥf-ḫꜣswt Founder of Egypt, who vainquishes foreign countries Prenomen  (Praenomen) Sitre Meryamun Sꜣt-Rꜥ-mrj(t)-Jmn Daughter of Ra, beloved of Amun Hieroglyphic variants: Nomen Tausret [Setepenmut] Tꜣ-wsr.t-[stp-n-Mwt] Mighty Lady, [chosen of Mut][1] Tausret-Setepen[mut] Tꜣ-wsr.t-[stp-n-Mwt] Mighty Lady, chosen [of Mut]
Consort	Seti II (?)
Children	KV56 mummy (?)
Father	Merneptah (uncertain)
Mother	Takhat (uncertain)
Died	1189 BC
Burial	KV14 in the Valley of the Kings
Monuments	Mortuary temple in Western Thebes
Dynasty	19th Dynasty

Tausret, also spelled Tawosret or Twosret (d. 1189 BCE) was the last known ruler and the final pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt.

She is recorded in Manetho's Epitome as "Thuoris, who in Homer is called Polybus, husband of Alcandra, and in whose time Troy was taken."^[2] She was said to have ruled Egypt for seven years, but this figure included the nearly six-year reign of Siptah, her predecessor.^[3] Tausret simply assumed Siptah's regnal years as her own.

While her sole independent reign would have lasted for perhaps one to one and a half years, from 1191-89 BC, this number now appears more likely to be two full years instead, possibly longer. Excavation work by the University of Arizona Egyptian Expedition on her memorial temple ("temple of millions of years") at Gournah strongly suggests that it was completed and functional during her reign and that Tausret started a regnal year 9, which means that she had two and possibly three independent years of rule, once one deducts the nearly six-year reign of Siptah.^[4] Her royal name, Sitre Meryamun, means "Daughter of Re, beloved of Amun."^[5]