What do you call a pharaoh's wife?

Question

i need the technical term for the wife of a pharaoh, please.

Answer 1

lucky.....because shes not slavin' in the sun

Answer 2

queen

Answer 3

Queen or Queen Consort. It also depends on if it was Pharaoh's favorite wife as he had several wives and numerous concubines

Answer 4

Missus.

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Answer 5

Mommie?

Answer 6

just queen

Answer 7

Deceased and/or the dead bit@@ wife of the Pharaoh.  I guess "Mrs Pharaoh" could work too..."Walk Like an Egyptian"!!

Answer 8

Queen!

Answer 9

I think it might be Tryphaena. Maybe!!!!

Answer 10

Great Royal Wife or Chief King's Wife is the term used to refer to the chief wife of an Egyptian pharaoh on the day of his coronation. The first holder of its title was perhaps Nubkhaes of the Second Intermediate Period. The Great Royal Wife was an official state consort and would often be a sister or even daughter of the king. The pharaoh would marry his step-sister or daughter in order to keep the royal bloodline pure.

While most Egyptians were monogamous, the pharaoh would have had other, lesser wives (and concubines) in addition to the Great Royal Wife. This would allow the pharaoh to enter into diplomatic marriages with the daughters of allies, as was the custom of kings.

The order of succession in Ancient Egypt passed through the royal women. Marriage to a queen of the royal lineage was necessary, even if the pharaoh came from outside of the lineage as happened occasionally. Secondary unions to other women in the royal family assured that there would be heirs from the lineage and women who could become the royal wives.

This is the reason for all of the intermarriages. The royal women also played a pivotal role in the religion of ancient Egypt. The Great Royal Wife officiated at the rites in the temples, as priestess, in a culture where religion was inexorably interwoven with the roles of the rulers.

The mother of the heir to the throne was not always the Great Royal Wife, but once a pharaoh was crowned, it was not unknown to grant his mother the title of Great Royal Wife, along with other titles, even if she was not entitled to it during her husband's lifetime, and sometimes the title was given posthumously to a king's mother.

The greatest summit of power reached by any Great Royal Wife was by Hatshepsut, who after the death of her husband, Thutmose II became regent during the minority of her stepson, Thutmose III, eventually assuming the title of pharaoh herself and ruling in her own right as a true queen regnant. Though other queens had ruled Egypt, Hatshepsut was the first woman to actually take the title of pharaoh.

Note: Whoever said they studied egyptology should really study more..

Answer 11

queen? i think she's a pharoah as well

Answer 12

Well as a lot of Pharonic royalty married within the family, it could be sister, niece our cousin