Tentkheta
{{Short description|Great Royal Wife of Amasis II.}}
{{Infobox hieroglyphs
|title = Tentkheta
|name transcription = Tɜ-nt-ḫtɜ
|name explanation = She from the land of the Hittites
|remarks= {{center|Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Amasis II}}
}}
Tentkheta (Tanetkheta) was the Great Royal Wife of Amasis II. She dates to the Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt.Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. {{ISBN|0-500-05145-3}}
Biography
Tentkheta was one of the wives known for Pharaoh Amasis II.Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. {{ISBN|0-500-05128-3}} She was a daughter of a priest of Ptah named Padineith. She was the mother of a King's son named Khnum-ib-ReGrajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, {{ISBN|978-0-9547218-9-3}} and the mother of Pharaoh Psamtik III. Tentkheta held the titles king's wife (hmt nswt) and overseer of the affairs of the acacia house (khrp seshmtiw shendjet).