ASHAYET


ASHAYET (fl. 2020 BC). A minor wife of Mentuhotep II of Dynasty
11. She was commemorated in a chapel and buried in a pit tomb at
his funerary complex at Deir el-Bahri. The chapel was discovered

during Henri Edouard Naville’s excavations at the site, but
Ashayet’s tomb was found largely intact by an American expedition
from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in excavations from
1920–1921. Her sarcophagus and mummy are now in the Cairo
Egyptian Museum. See also HENHENET; KAWIT; KEMSIT;
MYT; NEFRU; SADEH; TEM.

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