Hetepheres I | |
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Queen consort of Egypt | |
![]() Gold figure of Hetepheres from her Giza tomb - drawing by George Reisner (1925) | |
Burial | Tomb G 7000X near the Great Pyramid of Giza |
Spouse | Sneferu |
Issue | Hetepheres Khufu |
Father | Huni |
Religion | Ancient Egyptian religion |
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Hetepheres in hieroglyphs | ||||
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Era: Old Kingdom (2686–2181 BC) | ||||
Hetepheres I was a queen of Egypt during the Fourth Dynasty of Egypt (c. 2600 BC) who was a wife of one king, the mother of the next king, the grandmother of two more kings, and the figure who tied together two dynasties.