Satiah was an Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt

Ancient Egypt was an ancient civilization of Northeastern Africa, concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River in what is now the modern country of Egypt. Egyptian civilization coalesced around 3150 BC with the political unification of Upper and Lower Egypt under the first pharaoh...

ian queen, the Great Royal Wife

Great Royal Wife

Great Royal Wife or Chief King's Wife is the term used to refer to the chief wife of the pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. While most Ancient Egyptians were monogamous, the pharaoh would have had other, lesser wives and concubines in addition to the Great Royal Wife...

 of Thutmose III

Thutmose III

Thutmose III was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his stepmother, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh...

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Family

Satiah was the daughter of the royal nurse Ipu

Ipu (nurse)

Ipu was a royal nurse during the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt. She was the mother of Queen Satiah, Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Thutmose IV.She is mentioned on an offering table of Satiah's, found in Abydos, now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. She is named Nurse of the God.She may be identical...

. It is possible that her father was the important official Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet

Ahmose Pen-Nekhebet

Ahmose Pen Nekhbet was an ancient Egyptian official who started his career under Ahmose I and served all the pharaohs until Thutmose III. His autobiographical inscriptions are important for the understanding of the history of the early New Kingdom, though less detailed than those of his...

. No children of Satiah are known, though there is a possibility that Prince Amenemhat

Amenemhat (son of Thutmose III)

Amenemhat was a prince of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt; the son of Pharaoh Thutmose III.He was the eldest son and appointed heir of the pharaoh...

 – Thutmose's eldest son, who died before his father – was her son.
Satiah died during her husband's reign and Thutmose's next Great Royal Wife was Merytre-Hatshepsut

Merytre-Hatshepsut

Queen Merytre-Hatshepsut was the principal wife of Pharaoh Thutmose III and the mother of Amenhotep II.-Family:Merytre-Hatshepsut was of noble birth...

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Biography

Satiah's titles include: King’s Wife (hmt-nisw), Great King’s Wife (hmt-niswt-wrt) and God’s Wife (hmt-ntr).

Satiah is attested in:

• Abydos
  Abydos, Egypt
  Abydos is one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, and also of the eight Upper Nome, of which it was the capital city. It is located about 11 kilometres west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10' N, near the modern Egyptian towns of el-'Araba el Madfuna and al-Balyana...
  
  : The text on an offering table mentions her mother, the “nurse of the god” Ipu. The offering table was dedicated by the lector priest Therikiti.
• Abydos: Bronze votive axe-head(?) (now in the Cairo Museum). The axe-head is inscribed with the name of Queen Sitiah.
• Temple of Monthu (Tod): Statue of Queen Sitiah dedicated by Tuthmosis III after her death (now in the Cairo Museum).
• Pillar in the tomb of Tuthmosis III (KV34
  KV34
  Tomb KV34 in the Valley of the Kings was the final resting place of 18th dynasty Pharaoh Thutmose III....
  
  ). Queen Sitiah is depicted behind Queen Merytre and Tuthmosis III. Behind Queen Sitiah we see the King's Wife Nebtu
  Nebtu
  Nebtu was an Ancient Egyptian queen, a wife of Thutmose III.She was depicted on a pillar in Thutmose's tomb KV34 where the pharaoh leads a procession of his family members – his two Great Royal Wives Merytre-Hatshepsut and Satiah, his wife Nebtu and his daughter Nefertari...
  
   and the King's Daughter Nefertari.
• Relief from Karnak. Satiah is depicted before Tuthmosis III.
• A stela in the Cairo Museum. The stela shows Queen Satiah standing behind Tuthmosis III.

External links

• Queen Sitiah (website by A. Bart)