Iaret

laret (King's Great Wife; King's Daughter; King's Sister) was the daughter of Amunhotep II and wife of Thutmose IV. She is depicted on a Year 7 stela of Thutmose IV from Konosso [ Bryan, Betsy. The Reign of Thutmose IV, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. p.335] as well as on inscriptions from the turquoise mines at Serabit el-Khadim in the Sinai from the same year. [Bryan, op. cit., p.336] The transcription of her name is uncertain; it is written with a single cobra, which has a number of possible readings.

laret (KGW; KD; Ksis)Daughter of Amunhotep II and wife of Thutmose IV from around year 7 onwards, which is the date of inscriptions at Serabit el-Khadim and Konosso. The transcription of her name is not certain, it being written with a single cobra, which has a number of possible readings. Iaret may have been the mother of Sitamun and the grandmother of Nefertiti. Source: The Complete Royal Families of Egypt by Aidan Dodson (Teaching Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Bristol) and Dyan Hilton (Cert. in Egyptian Archaeology, University of Bristol) Published by Thames & Hudson Ltd. London 2004 IaretIaret

References

* Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Egypt, Thames & Hudson Ltd. London 2004