Ankhesenpepi II

Ankhesenpepi II or Ankhesenmeryre II was a queen consort during the sixth dynasty of Egypt. She and her sister Ankhesenpepi I were the daughters of Khui and the vizier Nebet and were sisters of the Vizier Djau [Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, pp.16,73] . Both were married to Pharaoh Pepi I whose throne name was "Meryre;" their name was probably taken when the marriage took place, since it means “Her life belongs to Pepi/Meryre”. Both queens gave birth to successors of Pepi: the son of Ankhesenpepi I was Merenre Nemtyemsaf I, who ruled only for a few years; the son of Ankhesenpepi II was Pepi II, who succeeded after Nemtyemsaf's death. [Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.71]

She is mentioned together with her sister on their brother's stela in Abydos, also, at her pyramid and in that of her daughter-in-law Neith; in a text in the Sinai, in a decree in Abydos and on a statue which shows her with her son on her lap (now in Brooklyn). [Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.74]

Her titles were: "King's Wife, King's Mother, God's Daughter, Great of Sceptre." [Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.74]

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