Queen hetepheres furniture

          Queen hetepheres tomb.

          Hetepheres I

          For other women with this name, see Hetepheres.

          Queen consort of Egypt

          Hetepheres I (fl. c.

          Egyptian throne room

        1. Egyptian throne chair
        2. Queen hetepheres tomb
        3. Chair of hetepheres
        4. Lion aquamanile

          5. 2600 BC) was a queen of Egypt during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt who was a wife of one king, the mother of the next king, the grandmother of two more kings, and the figure who tied together two dynasties.

          Biography

          Hetepheres I may have been a wife of KingSneferu,[1] and was the mother of King Khufu.

          It is possible that Hetepheres had been a minor wife of Sneferu and only rose in prominence after her son ascended the throne.[2] She was the grandmother of two kings, Djedefre and Khafre, and of queen Hetepheres II.[1] Her titles include: King's Mother (Mut-nisut, mwt-nswt), Mother of the King of the Two Lands (Mut-nisut-biti, mwt-nswt-bjtj), Attendant of Horus (Khet-heru, ḫt-hrw), and God's Daughter of his body (Zat-netjer-net-khetef,zꜣt-nṯr-nt-ẖt.f).[2] The marriage of Hetepheres I to Snefru solidified his rise to