Qalhata

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| name = Qalhata

| title = Queen consort of Nubia and Egypt
Great Royal Wife

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| place of burial = Pyramid in El-Kurru (Ku. 5)

| spouse = Pharaoh Shabaka

| issue = King Tantamani

| dynasty = 25th Dynasty of Egypt

| father = King Piye

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{{Hiero|QalhataJoyce Tyldesley, Chronicles of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson: London, 2006.|<-W11:E23-O4-t:N34->|align=left|era=nk}}

Qalhata was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}}, p.234-240

Qalhata was a daughter of King Piye and a queen consort to her brother Shabaka. She is known from the Dream Stela of King Tantamani and from her pyramid in El-Kurru (Ku. 5).Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149

Assyrian records state that King Tantamani was the son of Taharqa's sister. The tomb of Qalhata at El-Kurru contains texts that say she is a King's Mother, giving some evidence of the family relationships.R. Morkot: The Black Pharaohs, Egypt's Nubian Rulers, London 2000, pg 205 {{ISBN|0-948695-24-2}}

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