Tabiry
{{Infobox royalty
| name = Tabiry
| title = Queen consort of Nubia and Egypt
Main King's Wife, The Great One of the Foreign Country, etc
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| place of burial = Pyramid Ku53 in Kuru, Nubia
| spouse = Pharaoh Piye
| issue = unknown
| dynasty = 25th Dynasty of Egypt
| father = Alara of Nubia
| mother = Kasaqa
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Tabiry 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
Biography
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Tabiry was the daughter of Alara of Nubia and his wife Kasaqa and the wife of King Piye. She held some interesting titles: Main King's Wife, first of her majesty (hmt niswt 'at tpit n hm.f) (the only other queen to hold the Main King's Wife title was Nefertiti) and “The Great One of the Foreign Country” (ta-aat-khesut). She also holds the more standard titles of King's Wife (hmt niswt), King's Daughter (s3t niswt), and King's Sister (snt niswt).Grajetski, Ancient Egyptian Queens: a hieroglyphic dictionary, Golden House Publications. p.88
Tabiry was buried in a pyramid at El-Kurru (K.53). A carved granite funerary stela found in her tomb mentions she is the daughter of Alara of Nubia and the wife of Piye. The stela is now in Khartoum. The stela gives Tabiry further titles. Reisner had initially translated one of her titles as 'the great chieftainess of the Temehu' (southern Libyans), and concluded that the royal house of Kush was somehow related to the Libyans.Reisner, The Royal Family of Ethiopia, Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 112/113 (Jun., 1921), pp. 21-38 Others have since shown that her title should be read as "Great One (or 'Chieftainess') of the Desert-dwellers", showing her title connects her to the Nubians.D. M. Dixon, The Origin of the Kingdom of Kush (Napata-Meroë), The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 50 (Dec., 1964), pp. 121-132
A blue faience ushabti of Tabiry is now in the Petrie Museum in London (UC13220).[http://petriecat.museums.ucl.ac.uk/detail.aspx?parentpriref=UC13220 Shabti UC13220 on the Petrie Museum website]
References
{{Queens of Ancient Egypt}}
Category:Queens consort of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt
Category:8th-century BC Egyptian people
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