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Sekhmakh
Sḫ m3ḫ
in hieroglyphs

Sekhmakh was the wife of the Nubian king Nastasen, who ruled in the Fourth century BC.

Sekhmakh is known from the great stela of the king, where she is depicted in the roundle. There is also her funerary stela,[1] found in a temple at Jebel Barkal and obviously reused. The burial, where the stela was once placed is unknown. Sekhmakh bears the titles king's daughter, king's wife and mistress of Egypt. Her royal parents are unknown.

Sekhmakh had a Horus name and is referred to as "king" on a stela from Jebel Barkal, possibly indicating that she was a queen regnant or had some kind of role that was a precursor to the reigning queens of Meroe. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Khartum 1853
  2. ↑ Joyce Haynes; Mimi Santini-Ritt (2012). "Women in Ancient Nubia". In Marjorie M. Fisher; Peter Lacovara; Salma Ikram; Sue D'Auria (eds.). Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. The American University in Cairo Press. p. 173.

Literature

  • Laszlo Török, in: Fontes Historiae Nubiorum, Vol. II, Bergen 1996, 468, ISBN 978-82-91626-01-7
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